Diagnosis and management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: French practical guidelines.

ABSTRACT: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the most frequent chronic idiopathic interstitial pneumonia in adults. The management of rare diseases in France has been organised by a national plan for rare diseases, which endorsed a network of expert centres for rare diseases throughout France. This article is an overview of the executive summary of the French guidelines for the management of IPF, an initiative that emanated from the French National Reference Centre and the Network of Regional Competence Centres for Rare Lung Diseases. This review aims at providing pulmonologists with a document that: 1) combines the current available evidence; 2) reviews practical modalities of diagnosis and management of IPF; and 3) is adapted to everyday medical practice. The French practical guidelines result

SUBMITTER: Cottin V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9487578 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature