Interstitial lung diseases
How to deal with chronic cough in ILD
Chronic cough is a major symptom in interstitial lung diseases (ILD), especially as the fibrotic process progresses. No matter what the ILD diagnosis is, dry debilitating cough can go alongside breathlessness and really impact our patients’ quality of life. In…
How to diagnose IPF when autoimmune abnormalities are present?
How to diagnose idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) when autoimmune screening reveals the presence of autoantibodies? Atypical presentations of IPF can be relatively common and interpreting the results of autoimmune screening when no connective tissue disease features are present can be…
