What is IPF?
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis = IPF. IPF roughly means “lung scarring of an unknown cause” (but this is a diagnosis in itself) It is only one possible diagnosis in the field of interstitial lung diseases. Most people who search for information…
Pragmatic treatment decisions in IPF
Unfortunately we still do not have very good treatments for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The antifibrotics that we have (in 2022) only seem slow down the generally inevitable progress of IPF. To complicate matters further, in certain countries (in this example…
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…
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (a complete tutorial)
This tutorial covers most clinical aspects about idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), in approximately 42 minutes. This is of course not enough to go over all the complexities of this condition, but should at least point you in the right direction.…
