Yuki Kata, Yu Hara, Kota Murohashi, Yusuke Saigusa, Ryo Nagasawa, Yoichi Tagami, Hiroaki Fujii, Ayako Aoki, Yurika Nishikawa, Katsushi Tanaka, Keisuke Watanabe, Nobuyuki Horita, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Masaki Yamamoto, Makoto Kudo, Takeshi Kaneko
Acute exacerbation (AE) of interstitial pneumonia (IP) shows poor prognosis, due to the typical histological pattern of diffuse alveolar damage superimposed upon lung fibrosis. The previous reports comparing clinical features between AE of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs) and those of IPs with known etiology are limited. We retrospectively compared clinical parameters including age, sex, Charlson Comorbidity Index score (CCIS), blood biomarkers at diagnosis of AE, treatment, and 3-month mortality between patients with AE of IIPs and collagen vascular disease-associated interstitial pneumonia (CVD-IP)...
August 2023: Nagoya Journal of Medical Science