- ►annals.org [PDF] M Selman, TE King Jr, A Pardo - Annals of internal medicine, 2001 - Am Coll Physicians Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a progressive and usually fatal lung disease
characterized by fibroblast proliferation and extracel- lular matrix remodeling,
which result in irreversible distortion of the lung's architecture. ... Cited by 664 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
TJ Gross, GW Hunninghake - N Engl J Med, 2001 - faculty.ksu.edu.sa From the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Med- icine,
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine and
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Iowa City. Address reprint requests to Dr. ... Cited by 409 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 13 versions
ALA Katzenstein, JL Myers - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care …, 1998 - Am Thoracic Soc Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), also referred to as cryptogenic fibrosing
alveolitis, is a progressive interstitial lung disease of unknown etiology (1,
2, 3). Although the pathologic features of inflammation and fibrosis are ... Cited by 903 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 13 versions
- ►atsjournals.org TE KING JR, MI SCHWARZ, K BROWN, JA … - American journal of respiratory and critical care …, 2001 - Am Thoracic Soc It is hypothesized that the extent and severity of fibrosis and cellularity
found on lung biopsy determine the prognosis and response to therapy in
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The objective of this study was to ... Cited by 288 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►atsjournals.org JA Bjoraker, JH Ryu, MK Edwin, JL Myers, HD … - American journal of respiratory and critical care …, 1998 - Am Thoracic Soc Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a generally fatal disorder with a
reported median survival of 3 to 6 yr. This has been based on relatively few
studies with diagnoses inconsistently confirmed by adequate lung biopsy. ... Cited by 555 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►im.org [PDF] R Ziesche, E Hofbauer, K Wittmann, V Petkov, … - New England Journal of Medicine, 1999 - content.nejm.org Results All the patients completed the study. Lung function deteriorated in all
nine patients in the group given prednisolone alone: total lung capacity
decreased from a mean (±SD) of 66±8 percent of the predicted value at ... Cited by 473 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
- ►atsjournals.org KR Flaherty, WD Travis, TV Colby, GB Toews, … - American journal of respiratory and critical care …, 2001 - Am Thoracic Soc Findings of surgical lung biopsy (SLB) are important in categorizing patients
with idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP). We investigated whether histologic
variability would be evident in SLB specimens from multiple lobes in ... Cited by 324 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 15 versions
- ►shouxi.net G Raghu, KK Brown, WZ Bradford, K Starko, … - New England Journal of Medicine, 2004 - content.nejm.org Results Over a median of 58 weeks, interferon gamma-1b therapy did not
significantly affect the primary end point of progression-free survival, defined
as the time to disease progression or death, and no significant treatment ... Cited by 305 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
- ►atsjournals.org G Raghu, C JOHNSON… - American journal of respiratory and critical care …, 1999 - Am Thoracic Soc Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive clinical syndrome of
unknown etiology and fatal outcome. Currently available therapies are
ineffective and associated with significant adverse effects. Pirfenidone, a ... Cited by 235 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►physiology.org BD Uhal, I Joshi, WF Hughes, C Ramos, A … - American Journal of Physiology- Lung Cellular and …, 1998 - Am Physiological Soc Earlier work from this laboratory showed that abnormal fibroblast phenotypes
isolated from fibrotic human lung produce factor(s) capable of inducing
apoptosis and necrosis of alveolar epithelial cells in vitro [BD Uhal, I. ... Cited by 160 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
