From anti-inflammatory drugs through antifibrotic agents to lung transplantation: a long road of research, clinical attempts, and failures in the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Chest. 2002 Sep;122(3):759-61. doi: 10.1378/chest.122.3.759.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents / adverse effects
  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Clinical Trials as Topic / trends
  • Forecasting
  • Humans
  • Interferon-gamma / adverse effects
  • Interferon-gamma / therapeutic use*
  • Lung Transplantation / trends*
  • Pulmonary Fibrosis / mortality
  • Pulmonary Fibrosis / rehabilitation*
  • Pyridones / adverse effects
  • Pyridones / therapeutic use*
  • Steroids
  • Survival Rate
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents
  • Pyridones
  • Steroids
  • Interferon-gamma
  • pirfenidone