Poorer Prognosis of Idiopathic Pleuroparenchymal Fibroelastosis Compared with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in Advanced Stage

OBJECTIVE: Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (IPPFE) is a rare disease characterized by predominant upper lobe pulmonary fibrosis of unknown etiology. However, the prognosis of IPPFE has not been discussed. We investigated the clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of IPPFE and id...

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Autores principales: Shioya, Makoto, Otsuka, Mitsuo, Yamada, Gen, Umeda, Yasuaki, Ikeda, Kimiyuki, Nishikiori, Hirotaka, Kuronuma, Koji, Chiba, Hirofumi, Takahashi, Hiroki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6110001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30186537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6043053

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