Management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a debilitating progressive respiratory disease with poor prognosis. The clinical management of IPF is difficult and no efficacious therapies are available. Advances in radiographic technique have made HRCT to a reliable, highly specific clinical tool that allows establishing the diagnosis in a majority of cases without the need for surgical biopsy. Recent research has shown that IPF, initially thought to …