Chapter 10 Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Publication date: 2018
Source:Interstitial Lung Disease
Author(s): Aditi Shah, Charlene D. Fell
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive, and ultimately fatal disease of the lung with an unknown etiology and few treatment options. Recognition of patients who fall into phenotypic subsets may provide earlier opportunities for initiation of therapy or referral to transplant. In addition, identification and management of comorbidities may improve quality of life, and this may be more important to some patients than extending survival. This chapter updates prior summaries of proposed phenotypes and comorbidities in IPF (Fell, 2012).



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