Is there an age at which you consider not starting antifibrotic therapy in a patient with IPF?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
I don't have an age cutoff. In my first couple of years of practice, I was hard-pressed to prescribe octogenarian antifibrotics, but I've come to think that approach is discriminatory.There does not appear to be an age at which antifibrotics lose efficacy. The real question seems to be whether older...
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I tend to take a conservative approach in the init...