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Do you prescribe antifibrotics to patients with combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE)?

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Pulmonology · Loma Linda University Health
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The definition of CPFE is not very well standardized. CPFE commonly presents with upper lung-predominant emphysema and basilar/peripheral-predominant fibrosis. Pulmonary fibrosis in CPFE could be due to IPF or other ILDs. I prescribe antifibrotics for patients with CPFE-IPF and CPFE-other ILDs with ...

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