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To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Teresa Barnes of the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis, +1-303-521-4080, tbarnes@coalitionforpf.org Landmark Bill Would Create National Patient Registry, Increase Public Awareness of Deadly Lung Disease WASHINGTON, July 23/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Not much is known about Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF), a progressive and ultimately fatal lung disease that claims the lives of 40,000 Americans each year and kills an estimated two-thirds of patients within their first...
By Allen, Timothy Craig * Context.-Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis is the most common and best known pulmonary histocytic lesion; however, the realm of pulmonary histiocytic lesions also includes an assortment of uncommon diseases that may exhibit pulmonary involvement. Objective.-To review pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis and other pulmonary histiocytoses to better ensure correct diagnosis and optimal assessment of prognosis and treatment. Data Sources.-Literature review and...
Rationale: The 2002 American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society classification of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias identified nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) as a provisional diagnosis. Concern was expressed that NSIP was a "wastebasket" category, difficult to distinguish fromother idiopathic interstitial pneumonias. Objectives: The following questions were addressed: (1) Is idiopathic NSIP a distinct entity? 2) If so, what are its clinical, radiologic and...
By Anonymous Didactic lectures, original research posters and presentations, and case presentations were conducted at the 5th Biennial Meeting of the Pulmonary Pathology Society June 20 through 22, 2007, at the El Dorado Hotel and Spa in Santa Fe, NM. The meeting drew participants from 10 nations. Fiftytwo faculty members participated in invited lectures and discussions on neoplastic and nonneoplastic lung disease. A discussion on The Utility of Consensus Classifications was organized by Dr...
By Park, Joo Hun; Kim, Dong Soon; Park, I-Nae; Jang, Se Jin; Et al Background: To investigate whether the better prognosis of interstitial pneumonias associated with collagen vascular disease (CVD) compared with idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP) is due to higher frequency of the nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) pattern in CVD, we compared the outcomes of patients from these two groups with the same histopathologic pattern. Subjects: The clinical features and survival of 362...
New research shows that idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP), a group of potentially fatal disorders that affects the lungs, may be caused by an interaction between a specific genetic background and cigarette smoking. In a study of 111 families that had at least two relatives with IIP, people who smoked cigarettes were three times more likely than non-smokers to develop the disease. The research was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National...
