The prognosis of cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis
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Prognosis of cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis.
We have analysed retrospectively 100 consecutive patients with cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis, who were treated with corticosteroids and followed for at least three years. At the time of diagnosis biopsy specimens were available in 64 cases. The clinical, radiographic, physiological, and histological features and the response to steroid treatment have been correlated with the prognosis. An ea...
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OBJECTIVE To determine the pattern of mortality ascribed to cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis and to identify factors that might be important in the aetiology of the disease; and to assess the validity of death certification of the disease. DESIGN A retrospective examination of mortality ascribed to cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis in England and Wales between 1979 and 1988 with analysis, by m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.27.5.535