Summary A 38-year old female patient is described who was found to have bilateral apical pulmonary fibrosis, mimicking tuberculosis, after she had been treated for ulcerative colitis at least two years before the onset of skeletal symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis. The diagnosis of ankylosing ...
Pulmonary fibrosis, sometimes known as “scarring of the lung”, is the name given to a group of chronic lung diseases. Read on to discover what exactly pulmonary fibrosis is, its symptoms and the treatment options available for this chronic lung disease. There are various different causes of ...
Most patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) complain of cough. IPF-associated cough is widely characterized as dry or non-productive. The aim of this study was to compare chronic cough in early stage IPF patients to cough in subjects with chronic cough from a community-based sample ...
Pulmonary fibrosis can take many years to be detected and multiple tests can be required to rule out other conditions Symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis Pulmonary fibrosis can cause many symptoms, such as breathlessness or a cough. Your treatment team can help manage these symptoms Managing your co...
The clinical symptoms of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are nonspecific. Most patients present with exertional dyspnea and a nonproductive cough. Such symptoms can be shared with a variety of pulmonary and cardiac diseases. Dyspnea, which is the most prominent symptom in idiopathic pulmonary fibr...
However, most patients with pulmonary embolism have no obvious symptoms at presentation. Rather, symptoms may vary from sudden catastrophic hemodynamic collapse to gradually progressive dyspnea. The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism should be suspected in patients with respiratory symptoms unexplained by an ...
Martinez TY, Pereira CA, Dos Santos ML, Ciconelli RM, Guimaraes SM, Martinez JA: Evaluation of the short-form 36-item questionnaire to measure health-related quality of life in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Chest. 2000, 117: 1627-1632. 10.1378/chest.117.6.1627. Article CAS Pub...
(nondiagnostic) presentation is a useful finding in this setting. Primary pulmonary hypertension can have a normal V/Q scan or simply patchy perfusion. Parenchymal causes of pulmonary hypertension usually have matched defects. Because of accompanying perivascular fibrosis in patients with chronic ...
Pulmonary diseases such as obstructive lung disease and lung cancer display a very unfavorable trend in the near future. They belong to a class of clinical entities which show a worldwide increase both in morbidity and mortality. COPD (chronic obstructiv
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a rare lung disease that causes scar tissue to grow inside your lungs. Learn more about the risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of IPF.