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Editorial
. 2020 Dec;8(23):1615.
doi: 10.21037/atm-20-3243.

Home spirometry to assess efficacy of pirfenidone in progressive unclassifiable interstitial lung disease: better the devil you know than the devil you don't

Giacomo Sgalla  1 , Pier-Valerio Mari  2 , Luca Richeldi  1   2
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Editorial

Home spirometry to assess efficacy of pirfenidone in progressive unclassifiable interstitial lung disease: better the devil you know than the devil you don't

Giacomo Sgalla et al. Ann Transl Med. 2020 Dec.
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Conflicts of Interest: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm-20-3243). SG has received personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim outside the submitted work. RL has received grants and personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim and InterMune, and personal fees from Biogen-Idec, ImmuneWorks, Medimmune, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, Shionogi, and Takeda outside of the submitted work. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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