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Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers for Chronic Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Diseases With a Progressive Phenotype.
Chest - 1 Aug 2020
Inoue Yoshikazu, Kaner Robert J, Guiot Julien, Maher Toby M, Tomassetti Sara, Moiseev Sergey, Kuwana Masataka, Brown Kevin K
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Biomarkers have the potential to become central to the clinical evaluation and monitoring of patients with chronic fibrosing interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) with a progressive phenotype. Here we summarize the current understanding of putative serum, BAL fluid, and genetic biomarkers in this setting, according to their hypothesized pathobiologic mechanisms: evidence of epithelial cell dysfunction (eg, Krebs von...
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