What are the stages of pulmonary fibrosis?

pulmonary fibrosis is the gradual scarring of lung tissue. there are several theories as to what causes the injury from genetic to autoimmune to enviromental factors. Air sacs become slowly replaced by scar tissue eventually affecting air exchange. Research in this area is limited. Pt have different stages of progession of disease

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Does anyone have information on pulmonary fibrosis?

I have IPF and was diagnosed in March of 2003. The doctors gave me between 18 and 36 months to live. My treatment consisted of prednisone, supplemental oxygen, and Interferon. The prednisone and...

Anyone know anything about pulmonary fibrosis?

pumonary fibrosis is a restrictive airway disease (there are two types of airway diseases copd is obstrucitve) Pulmonary fibrosis is most often caused by stuf that comes from the workign enviromen...

My disease is interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and I cannot take the two drugs that help delay the disease?

Gee.....why not get another doctor? Problem solved.

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Natural cures for pulmonary fibrosis?

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Where can the pulmonary fibrosis medication pirfenadone be purchased?

Pirfenidone is an orally active small molecule drug that may inhibit collagen synthesis, down regulate production of multiple cytokines and block fibroblast proliferation and stimulation in respons...

My dad has Pulmonary Fibrosis, and his lung capacity is 32%,and oxygen is 85. Anyone know how bad that is?

His prognosis is quite grave. The worst thing about his condition is that it is irreversible...With such poor pulmonary function parameters it is questionable if providing oxygen by conventional me...

I was diagnosed with interstitual pulmonary fibrosis. Are there any natural products to address this ?

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I was diagnosed almost 5 years ago and given 18 months to live. The doctors tried steroids and Interferon, but no success. I was living in a city at higher el...

My dad is in the hospital with pulmonary fibrosis can you explain how serious this is?

First, let me say how sorry I am to hear that your father has pulmonary fibrosis (PF). I speak from experience - I have PF and was diagnosed in 2003 and given about 18 months to live. As you can ...