Usual Interstitial Pneumonia Preceding Collagen Vascular Disease: A Retrospective Case Control Study of Patients Initially Diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate the cumulative incidence and the predictive factors for collagen vascular disease (CVD) in patients initially diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), and to examine the features of patients who then developed CVD. METHODS: This was a retr...

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Main Authors: Kono, Masato, Nakamura, Yutaro, Enomoto, Noriyuki, Hashimoto, Dai, Fujisawa, Tomoyuki, Inui, Naoki, Maekawa, Masato, Suda, Takafumi, Colby, Thomas V., Chida, Kingo
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988132/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24736601
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094775
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