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Does your approach to treating latent tuberculosis differ in a patient on anti-fibrotic therapy?

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Pulmonology · Augusta University Medical College Of Georgia

With the increasingly common indication of progressive pulmonary fibrosis in the setting of CT-ILD, RA, and scleroderma, it is conceivable that patients being started on antifibrotic therapy may be on anti-TNF alpha or other immunosuppressive agents. Specifically with anti-TNF alpha agents such as R...

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