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Rad Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Medical sciences : Medical Sciences, No. 522=41, 2015.

Review article

Diffuse parenchymal lung disease

Tatjana Peroš-Golubičić

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Abstract

Diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD) is a group of diseases that have the common characteristic of involving the pulmonary parenchyma diffusely. The pulmonary parenchyma consists of all structures distal to the terminal bronchiole. DPLD are numerous, there are some 150 different entities that qualify for the group. Most of these diseases are diagnosed according to common algorithm, but the etiology, prognosis and therapy are quite different. Lung transplantation is the ultimate therapeutic option for some of these diseases, most frequently it is the idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).

Keywords

diffuse parenchymal lung disease; lung transplantation; idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Hrčak ID:

139006

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/139006

Publication date:

14.5.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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