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Histopathology of the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIP): A review
(Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, 2015)
The 2013 American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society consensus classification update of the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIP) included several important modifications to the organization and spectrum of ...
Desaturation - distance ratio: a new concept for a functional assessment of interstitial lung diseases
(Faculdade de Medicina / USP, 2010)
INTRODUCTION: The functional evaluation has become increasingly important in the understanding and management of patients with interstitial lung diseases. The cardiopulmonary exercise test and the six-minute walk test ...
Autoimmune pulmonary proteinosis in a Chilean teenager, a rare aetiology of interstitial lung disease
(2014)
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is rare and encompasses a heterogeneous group of diseases, and is even rarer in children than in adults. ILDs compromise more than 100 different entities, including pulmonary alveolar ...
A Case of Interstitial Lung Disease With Apical Pleural Thickening: Idiopathic Pleuroparenchymal Fibroelastosis
(Sociedad Española de Neumología y Cirugia Torácica, 2014)
Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (IPPFE) is a very rare, recently described condition, characterised by fibrotic thickening of the pleural and subpleural parenchyma, predominantly in the upper lobes.1 Clinical ...
Small Airway Remodeling in Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias: A Pathological Study
(KARGER, 2010)
Background: Few studies have addressed small airway (SA) histopathological changes and their possible role in the remodeling process in idiopathic interstitial pneumonias. Objectives: To study morphological, morphometrical ...
Interstitial lung disease and microscopic polyangiitis in chilean patients
(Mattioli 1885, 2020)
Objective: To describe the clinical and serological patients characteristics with Microscopic Polyangiitis (MPA) and Interstitial lung disease (ILD). Methods: Of all the patients with AAV diagnosed between 2007-2017 at the ...
Syndrome in question: Antisynthetase syndrome (anti-PL-7)
(2016-09-01)
Antisynthetase syndrome is a rare autoimmune disease characterized by interstitial lung disease and/or inflammatory myositis, with positive antisynthetase antibodies (anti-Jo-1, anti-PL-7, anti-PL-12, ZO, OJ, anti-KE or ...
A long-term prospective randomized controlled study of non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) treatment in scleroderma
(SPRINGER LONDON LTD, 2011)
The association of cyclophosphamide (CYC) and prednisone (PRED) for the treatment of lung fibrosis in systemic sclerosis (SSc) was only evaluated in uncontrolled studies, although in idiopathic interstitial lung disease ...