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Diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice Guideline by Ganesh Raghu; Martine Remy-Jardin; Jeffrey L. Myers; Luca Richeldi; Christopher J. Ryerson; David J. Lederer; Juergen Behr; Vincent Cottin; Sonye K. Danoff; Ferran Morell; Kevin R. Flaherty; Athol Wells; Fernando J. Martinez; Arata Azuma; Thomas J. Bice; Demosthenes Bouros; Kevin K. Brown; Harold R. Collard; Abhijit Duggal; Liam Galvin; Yoshikazu Inoue; R. Gisli Jenkins; Takeshi Johkoh; Ella A. Kazerooni; Masanori Kitaichi; Shandra L. Knight; George Mansour; Andrew G. Nicholson; Sudhakar N. J. Pipavath; Ivette Buendía-Roldán; Moisés Selman; William D. Travis; Simon L. F. Walsh; Kevin C. Wilson is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

Background: This document provides clinical recommendations for the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). It represents a collaborative effort between the American Thoracic Society, European Respiratory Society, Japanese Respiratory Society, and Latin American Thoracic Society. Methods: The evidence syntheses were discussed and recommendations formulated by a multidisciplinary committee of IPF experts. The evidence was appraised and recommendations were formulated, written, and graded using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation approach. Results: The guideline panel updated the diagnostic criteria for IPF. Previously defined patterns of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) were refined to patterns of UIP, probable UIP, indeterminate, and alternate diagnosis. For patients with newly detected interstitial lung disease (ILD) who have a high-resolution computed tomography scan pattern of probable UIP, indeterminate, or an alternative diagnosis, conditional recommendations were made for performing BAL and surgical lung biopsy; because of lack of evidence, no recommendation was made for or against performing transbronchial lung biopsy or lung c

Author

Ganesh Raghu; Martine Remy-Jardin; Jeffrey L. Myers; Luca Richeldi; Christopher J. Ryerson; David J. Lederer; Juergen Behr; Vincent Cottin; Sonye K. Danoff; Ferran Morell; Kevin R. Flaherty; Athol Wells; Fernando J. Martinez; Arata Azuma; Thomas J. Bice; Demosthenes Bouros; Kevin K. Brown; Harold R. Collard; Abhijit Duggal; Liam Galvin; Yoshikazu Inoue; R. Gisli Jenkins; Takeshi Johkoh; Ella A. Kazerooni; Masanori Kitaichi; Shandra L. Knight; George Mansour; Andrew G. Nicholson; Sudhakar N. J. Pipavath; Ivette Buendía-Roldán; Moisés Selman; William D. Travis; Simon L. F. Walsh; Kevin C. Wilson

Publisher

American Thoracic Society (ISSN 1073-449X)

Published

2018

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)