Clinical Characteristics and Disease Course of Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Disease Patients in a Real-World Setting.

ABSTRACT: Background and Objectives: This single-center retrospective study was conducted to describe clinical characteristics and the disease course of patients with interstitial lung diseases (ILD). Materials and Methods: The study included adult patients with fibrosing ILD (IPF, non-IPF fibrosing ILD (F-ILD), and non-IPF progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF)) treated between 2014 and 2017. Patients were followed annually from the first visit until the end of the study period in 2019. Data were collected from the Turku University Hospital data lake and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: 591 patients formed the patient cohort: 110 had IPF, 194 F-ILD, 142 PPF, and the remaining 145 patients were uncertain, F-ILD-U, whose disease progression nature could not be confir

SUBMITTER: Kilpelainen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9961403 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature