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  1. Prognostic factors and survival outcomes of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with Ipsilateral pulmonary metastasis (IPM) are not well-defined. Thus, this study intended to identify the prognostic factors for...

    Authors: Jiajun Zhang and Jin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:413
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  3. To examine the characteristics of blood lymphocyte subsets in dermatomyositis-interstitial lung disease (DM-ILD) inflicted patients with positive anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (anti-MDA5), as...

    Authors: Fang-Ping Ren, Qi Chen, Shan-Shan Yao, Lin Feng, Xin-Ying Xue, Wei-Chao Zhao, Dong Wang, Zhi-Ling Zhao, Si-Wei Gu, Ting Li, Ya-Wen Shen, Lan Gao, Xue-Lei Zang, Xin-Yu Bao and Zhao-Hui Tong
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:411
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  4. Primary blast lung injury (PBLI) is the main cause of death in blast injury patients, and is often ignored due to the absence of a specific diagnosis. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are becoming recognized as new re...

    Authors: Qianying Lu, Junfeng Li, Yanmei Zhao, Jianfeng Zhang, Mingyu Shi, Sifan Yu, Yangfan Liang, Haojun Fan and Xiangyan Meng
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:410
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  5. The COVID-19 pandemic has been linked to chronic pulmonary complications all over the world. Respiratory complications such as chronic cough, dyspnea, increased respiratory rate, and oxygen support demand are ...

    Authors: Abebaw Bekele Seyoum, Sisay Shine Tegegnework, Mahider Molla Mengistu, Tenbite Daniel Mekonnen, Abdurahman Mohammedamin Asabel, Alazar Gizate Dagnaw, Abenet Girma Deribe, Tadios Niguss Derese, Tsegaye Gebreyes Hundie, Bisrat Kassa Getahun and Dawit Kebede Huluka
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:409
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  6. Risk factors of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been previously reported; however, histological risk factors have not been defined thus far. The aim of this study was to clarify subclinical hid...

    Authors: Hiromichi Iwashita, Yoshinori Kawabata, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Shoichiro Matsushita, Tsuneo Yamashiro, Mai Matsumura, Yukihiro Yoshimura, Toshiaki Kataoka, Hideaki Mitsui, Takehisa Suzuki, Toshihiro Misumi, Tomonori Tanaka, Sosuke Ishijima, Junya Fukuoka, Tae Iwasawa, Takashi Ogura…
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:408
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  7. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic and progressive disorder with unknown etiology. To date, the identification of new diagnostic, prognostic and progression biomarkers of IPF turns out to be nece...

    Authors: Piera Soccio, Giorgia Moriondo, Giulia Scioscia, Valentina Leo, Pasquale Tondo, Luciana Salerno, Paolo Palange, Maria Pia Foschino Barbaro and Donato Lacedonia
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:407
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  8. Lung function analysis in Parkinson's disease (PD) is often difficult due to the demand for adequate forced expiratory maneuvers. Respiratory oscillometry exams require onlyquiet tidal breathing and provide a ...

    Authors: Bruno Tavares Caldas, Fernando Carlos Vetromille Ribeiro, João Santos Pereira, Wilma Costa Souza, Agnaldo José Lopes and Pedro Lopes de Melo
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:406
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  9. Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (LVR) could significantly improve pulmonary function and quality of life in patients with emphysema. We aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of bronchoscopic thermal vapo...

    Authors: Lijia Zhi, Liping Liao, Zhi Wu, Tiezhu Wang, Yuming Ye, Hao Li, Li Lin, Jia-Chao Qi and Liangji Zhang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:405
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  10. Antigen identification impacts diagnosis as well as prognosis in patients with hypersensitivity pneumonitis. An antigen may also be present in other etiologies of interstitial lung disease, however it is unkno...

    Authors: Margaret Kypreos, Kiran Batra, Craig S. Glazer and Traci N. Adams
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:404
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  11. As a result of advances in the treatment of lung cancer, the life expectancy of lung cancer patients has improved significantly, but it remains the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. For decades, most of...

    Authors: Thomas Melzer, Caroline Maria Hackl, Julia Walter, Jürgen Behr, Amanda Tufman, Pontus Mertsch, Diego Erich Kauffmann-Guerrero and Kathrin Kahnert
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:403
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  12. The immunity of patients with lung cancer decreases after treatment; thus, they are easily infected with pathogenic bacteria that causes pulmonary infections. Understanding the distribution characteristics of ...

    Authors: Yanyan Wang, Jia Li, Qinqin Wu, Qin Chang and Shuming Guo
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:402
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  13. Lymph node dissection is essential for staging of pure solid lung adenocarcinoma and selection of treatment after surgical resection, particularly for stage I disease since the rate of lymph node metastasis ca...

    Authors: Yu Rong, Junfeng Liu, Nianqiao Han, Zhihua Shi, Tao Jiang, Nan Zhang, Xi’e Xu, Jinhuan Yin and Hui Du
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:401
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  14. Tuberculous effusion varies from lymphocyte-dominant to neutrophilic effusion according to inflammation status. The criteria of adenosine deaminase (ADA) and lymphocyte/neutrophil (L/N) ratio have yet not been...

    Authors: Da Som Jeon, Sung-Hoon Kim, Jang Ho Lee, Chang-Min Choi and Hyung Jun Park
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:400
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:466

  15. The prevalence of COPD continues to rise. To address the challenges to provide high quality COPD care in rural and northern communities, leaders in one rural and northern community in Western Canada sought to ...

    Authors: Shannon Freeman, Laura Peach, Christopher Ross, Kathy Marchal, Anthon Meyer and Kelly Skinner
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:399
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  16. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has posed increasing challenges to global health systems. We aimed to understand the effects of pulmonary air leak (PAL), including pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum and subcu...

    Authors: Zhuan Zhong, Jia Guo, Xingzhao Li and Yingying Han
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:398
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  17. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic and progressive interstitial lung disease. Multiple research has revealed that the extracellular matrix (ECM) may be associated with the development and prognos...

    Authors: Hong Luo, Jisong Yan and Xia Zhou
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:397
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  19. Shipping and port-related air pollution has a significant health impact on a global scale. The present study aimed to assess the mortality burden attributable to long-term exposure to ambient particulate matte...

    Authors: Federico Mei, Matteo Renzi, Martina Bonifazi, Floriano Bonifazi, Nicola Pepe, Alessio D’Allura, Giuseppe Brusasca, Giovanni Viegi and Francesco Forastiere
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:395
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  20. Sarcopenia and obesity are two abnormal body composition phenotypes, and sarcopenic obesity (SO) is characterized by both low skeletal muscle mass (sarcopenia) and high adiposity (obesity). SO negatively influ...

    Authors: Zilin Wang, Xiaoming Zhou, Mingming Deng, Yan Yin, Yanxia Li, Qin Zhang, Yiding Bian, Jinrui Miao, Jiaye Li and Gang Hou
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:394
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  21. In 2020, Ecuador had one of the highest death rates because of COVID-19. The role of clinical and biomolecular markers in COVID disease prognosis, is still not well supported by available data. In order for th...

    Authors: Jorge Luis Vélez-Páez, Lucy Baldeón-Rojas, Cristina Cañadas Herrera, Mario Patricio Montalvo, Fernando Esteban Jara, Santiago Aguayo-Moscoso, Wendy Tercero-Martínez, Lenin Saltos, Glenda Jiménez-Alulima, Verónica Guerrero and Jorge Pérez-Galarza
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:393
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  22. Authors: Khalid Al Sulaiman, Ohoud Aljuhani, Ghazwa B. Korayem, Ali F. Altebainawi, Reham Alharbi, Maha Assadoon, Ramesh Vishwakarma, Nadia H. Ismail, Asma A. Alshehri, Faisal E. Al Mutairi, Mashael AlFaifi, Abdullah F. Alharthi, Abeer A. Alenazi, Mai Alalawi, Omar Al Zumai, Hussain Al Haji…
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:392
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:315

  23. Immunosuppressed bone marrow transplant patients with pulmonary infiltrates routinely undergo bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) to investigate potential etiologies. Cytokine release syndrome after...

    Authors: Margaret Guerriero, Feras Ally, Keith R. Loeb and Viswam S. Nair
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:391
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  24. Using a system, which accuracy is equivalent to the gold standard Douglas Bag (DB) technique for measuring oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide generation (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ), we aimed to co...

    Authors: Koichiro Shinozaki, Pey-Jen Yu, Qiuping Zhou, Hugh A. Cassiere, Stanley John, Daniel M. Rolston, Nidhi Garg, Timmy Li, Jennifer Johnson, Kota Saeki, Taiki Goto, Yu Okuma, Santiago J. Miyara, Kei Hayashida, Tomoaki Aoki, Vanessa K. Wong…
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:390
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  25. Omalizumab is a valuable alternative treatment for allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). The effectiveness and safety of this medication have not been confirmed. The main purpose of this study was to...

    Authors: Cuihong Cai, Jingjing Qu and Jianying Zhou
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:389
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  26. Since the first case of severe COVID-19, its effect on patients with previous interstitial lung disease (ILD) has been uncertain. We aimed to describe baseline clinical characteristics in ILD patients hospital...

    Authors: Ana Karem S. Pruneda, José Omar Barreto-Rodríguez, Moises Selman, Fortunato Juárez-Hernández and Ivette Buendía-Roldán
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:388
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  27. 1.2 million children under 15 years are estimated to have developed tuberculosis (TB) in 2021. 85% of paediatric patients achieve successful treatment outcomes if treated for the first episode of TB. However, ...

    Authors: Esin Nkereuwem, Schadrac Agbla, Muhammed Lamin Jatta, Uma Masterton, Olumuyiwa Owolabi, Victory Fabian Edem, Beate Kampmann and Toyin Togun
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:387
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  28. Astragaloside (AS)-IV, extracted from traditional Chinese medicine Astragalus mongholicus, has been widely used in the anti-inflammatory treatment for cardiovascular disease. However, the mechanism by which AS-IV...

    Authors: Jie Xi, Yan Ma, Dongmei Liu and Rong Li
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:386
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  29. Pulmonary rehabilitation training is of great significance for the prognosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the therapeutic effect and pa...

    Authors: Yirou Lei, Jiaying He, Fang Hu, Hao Zhu, Jing Gu, Lijuan Tang and Man Luo
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:385
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  30. The association between the oxidative stress gene polymorphism and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risk has been extensively studied but the results have been controversial. This study aimed to in...

    Authors: Ting Zhou, Qiunan Zuo, Mengchun Chen, Yingying Zhao, Xiaohui Li and Shujin Guo
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:384
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  31. The current diagnostic criteria for refractory Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (RMPP) among Mycoplasma pneumoniae Pneumonia (MPP) are insufficient for early identification, and potentially delayed appropriate tre...

    Authors: Meng Li, Xiang Wei, Shan-Shan Zhang, Shan Li, Su-Hong Chen, Su-Jie Shi, Shao-Hong Zhou, Da-Quan Sun, Qian-Ye Zhao and Yan Xu
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:383
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  32. Previous studies reported that tuberculosis (TB) is associated with an increased risk of lung cancer or the survival and mortality of lung cancer. However, the impact of coexisting TB on the survival of lung c...

    Authors: Mengting Xiong, Shuanshuan Xie, Yukun Wang, Chenlei Cai, Wei Sha, Haiyan Cui and Jian Ni
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:382
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  33. A positive response in reversibility testing is widely used to diagnose patients with airway limitations. However, despite its simple procedure, it doesn’t accurately reflect the exact airway irreversibility. ...

    Authors: Mona Ibrahim Ahmed, Randa Ibrahim Ahmed, Hasnaa Osama, Amira Karam Khalifa, Abdullah Ali Alshehri, Gaber El-Saber Batiha, Walaa A Negm and Marwa Kamal
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:381
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    The Matters Arising to this article has been published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:132

  34. Authors: Mohammad Fazle Rabbi, Mushfiq Newaz Ahmed, Md. Shafiqul Alam Patowary, Syed Rezaul Huq, S. M. Abdur Razzaque, Hossain Md. Arafat, Tasnuva Nahar and Mohammad Azmain Iktidar
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:380
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:349

  35. Currently, radiation therapy treatment planning system intends biological optimization that relies heavily upon plan metrics from tumor control probability (TCP) and normal tissue complication probability (NTC...

    Authors: Rui He, William N. Duggar, Claus Chunli Yang and Srinivasan Vijayakumar
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:379
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  36. Efforts have been made to reduce the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations using a variety of measures. Broncho-Vaxom (BV) is an immunomodulating agent that has shown potential ben...

    Authors: Joon Young Choi, Yong Bum Park, Tai Joon An, Kwang Ha Yoo and Chin Kook Rhee
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:378
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  37. The new grading system for invasive nonmucinous lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) in the 2021 World Health Organization Classification of Thoracic Tumors was based on a combination of histologically predominant subty...

    Authors: Kai Wang, Xin Liu, Yun Ding, Shuai Sun, Jiuzhen Li, Hua Geng, Meilin Xu, Meng Wang, Xin Li and Daqiang Sun
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:377
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  38. Dietary intake has been shown to have a causal relationship with various lung diseases, such as lung cancer and asthma. However, the causal relationship between dietary intake and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis...

    Authors: Yilin Zhang, Yihong Gan and Hong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:376
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  39. Lung salivary-type tumors originating from bronchial submucosal glands are rare, only four types of salivary gland-type tumors are listed in 2015 WHO classification of lung tumors. Here, we report a rare case ...

    Authors: Yi-Fan Shen, Cheng-Long Wang, Zhi-Gang Chu, You-De Cao, Yan Luo, Yang-Li Zhang and Yi-Jia Cao
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:375
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  40. Hitherto, the bulk of diagnostic criteria regards Aspergillus-specific immunoglobulin E as a key item, and regard IgG as an auxiliary method in diagnose. Nevertheless, there is no conclusive study in summarize th...

    Authors: Anlin Liu, Wushu Chen, Yining Wei, Jinkai Liang, Shuhong Liao, Yijun Chen, Yongming Li, Xidong Wang, Weisi Chen, Ye Qiu, Zhengtu Li and Feng Ye
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:374
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  41. The pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) remains unclear. We sought to identify IPF-related genes that may participate in the pathogenesis and predict potential targeted traditional Chinese medi...

    Authors: Zhenzhen Zhang, Qingzhou Guan, Yange Tian, Xuejie Shao, Peng Zhao, Lidong Huang and Jiansheng Li
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:373
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  42. Non-T2 asthma is characterized by the absence of elevated type 2 inflammatory biomarkers such as blood-eosinophils, total and allergen-specific Immunoglobulin E and Fractional exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO). Acco...

    Authors: Christiane Hammershaimb Mosbech, Nina Skavlan Godtfredsen, Charlotte Suppli Ulrik and Christian Grabow Westergaard
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:372
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  43. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the most common leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children; so, early identification of patients with CAP, who are at risk of complications or high mortality, is...

    Authors: Asmaa N. Moustafa, Hend M. Moness and Marwa Waly Eldin Ali
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:371
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  44. Acute kidney injury (AKI) can make cases of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) more complex, and the combination of the two can significantly worsen the prognosis. Our objective is to utilize machine l...

    Authors: Shuxing Wei, Yongsheng Zhang, Hongmeng Dong, Ying Chen, Xiya Wang, Xiaomei Zhu, Guang Zhang and Shubin Guo
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:370
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  45. The previous epidemiological and experimental evidence has implied the linkage between chronic inflammation to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). However, it was still unclear whether there were casual assoc...

    Authors: Qinyao Jia, Yanmei Lei, Shaoping Chen, Shengming Liu, Tao Wang and Yao Cheng
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:369
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  46. Current COVID-19 guidelines recommend the early use of systemic corticoids for COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). It remains unknown if high-dose methylprednisolone pulse therapy (MPT) amelio...

    Authors: Carsten Zeiner, Malte Schröder, Selina Metzner, Johannes Herrmann, Quirin Notz, Sebastian Hottenrott, Daniel Röder, Patrick Meybohm, Philipp M. Lepper and Christopher Lotz
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:368
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  47. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is the most challenging chronic lung disease for prematurity, with difficulties in early identification. Given lncRNA emerging as a novel biomarker and the regulator of ferropt...

    Authors: Ziming Zhang, Kewei Chen, Dandan Pan, Tieshuai Liu, Chengcheng Hang, Yuhan Ying, Jia He, Ying Lv, Xiaolu Ma, Zheng Chen, Ling Liu, Jiajun Zhu and Lizhong Du
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:367
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  49. Smoking cessation is the most important intervention in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, and asthma-COPD overlap (ACO); however, high rates of current cigarette smoking are observed in adu...

    Authors: Shingo Noguchi, Tomohiro Ishimaru, Yoshihisa Fujino, Kazuhiro Yatera and Takahiro Tabuchi
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:365
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  50. Currently, two disease-modifying antifibrotic drugs are indicated for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The objective of this study was to analyse antifibrotic and overall prescription medication...

    Authors: Jaana Kaunisto, Eija-Riitta Salomaa, Mari Koivisto and Marjukka Myllärniemi
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:364
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