Interstitial lung disease: Does it matter what we call you, or what you look like, or how you behave?

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonology and Department of Medicine, University of CapeTown and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.

Editorial

Richard van Zyl-Smit et al. Afr J Thorac Crit Care Med. 2023.

. 2023 Aug 3;29(2):10.7196/AJTCCM.2023.v29i2.803.

doi: 10.7196/AJTCCM.2023.v29i2.803. eCollection 2023.

¹ Division of Pulmonology and Department of Medicine, University of CapeTown and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.

No abstract available

References

1. Raghu G. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: lessons from clinical trials over the past 25 years. Eur Respir J. 2017;50:4. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01209-2017. - DOI - PubMed
1. Martinez FJ, Collard HR, Pardo A, et al. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Nat Rev Dis Primers. 2017;3:17074. doi: 10.1038/nrdp.2017.74. - DOI - PubMed
1. Raghu G, Remy-Jardin M, Richeldi L, et al. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (an update) and progressive pulmonary fibrosis in adults: An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ ALAT Clinical Practice Guideline. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2022;205(9):e18–e47. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202202-0399st. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
1. Wolters PJ, Blackwell TS, Eickelberg O, et al. Time for a change: is idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis still idiopathic and only fibrotic? Lancet Respir Med. 2018;6(2):154–160. - PMC - PubMed
1. Wells AU, Brown KK, Flaherty KR, et al. What’s in a name? That which we call IPF, by any other name would act the same. Eur Respir J. 2018;51(5) doi: 10.1183/13993003.00692-2018. - DOI - PubMed