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SUBMITTER: Karampitsakos T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6425869 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in medicine 20190313
Interstitial lung diseases (ILD) represent a group of heterogeneous parenchymal lung disorders with complex pathophysiology, characterized by different clinical and radiological patterns, ultimately leading to pulmonary fibrosis. A considerable proportion of these disease entities present with no effective treatment, as current therapeutic regimens only slow down disease progression, thus leaving patients, at best case, with considerable functional disability. Biologic therapies have emerged and ...[more]