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Abstract
Clinical vignette: A 76-year-old man consults you for increasing shortness of breath over the past two years and an increasing requirement for home oxygen. A video-assisted thoracoscopic lung biopsy shows findings of usual interstitial pneumonitis, and he has no identifiable cause for pulmonary fibrosis, so he is considered to have idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). His diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO) is 45% of predicted, and his total lung capacity is 40% of predicted. Because of his advanced age, he is not considered a candidate for lung transplantation. What treatment should you recommend?Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23434586 PMCID: PMC3582155 DOI: 10.1172/JCI68417
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Invest ISSN: 0021-9738 Impact factor: 14.808