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SUBMITTER: Kolb M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6417262 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kolb Martin M Vašáková Martina M
Respiratory research 20190314 1
A proportion of patients with certain types of interstitial lung disease (ILD), including chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis and ILDs associated with autoimmune diseases, develop a progressive fibrosing phenotype that shows similarities in clinical course to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Irrespective of the clinical diagnosis, these progressive fibrosing ILDs show commonalities in the underlying pathogenetic mechanisms that drive a self-sustaining process of pulmonary fibrosis. The natural hi ...[more]