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Acute exacerbation of subclinical idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis after radical resection of rectal carcinoma: A case report
2022-05-25
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<h4>Background: </h4> : Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic lung disease of unknown etiology, which is histologically characterized by interstitial fibrosis. Acute exacerbations of IPF (AE-IPF) is a rapid and unexplained worsening of respiratory symptoms accompanied by hypoxemia, which is relatively infrequent. Herein, we report a rare, unexpected death of a patient who died of AE-IPF after radical re...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 27836a4e-d256-58e5-8e8b-cc109c0f8496
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1669220/v1
