Does your approach to the management of a patient with an acute exacerbation of CPFE where the ILD is attributed to IPF differ from the management of a patient with an exacerbation of IPF alone?

In general, once an extensive workup to exonerate alternative causes of ILD in patients with presumed CPFE has been performed, I tend to treat the interstitial component of these two entities similarly, whether in the chronic phase or during an acute exacerbation.

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