THE IMPACT OF THE NEW CLASSIFICATION OF IDIOPATHIC INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIAS ON CLINICAL PRACTICE
Abstract
Background. New pathologic classification of interstitial pulmonary diseases of unknown etiology from 1998 enables better clinical approach to these diseases already in their early stages. As a result, key parameters for treatment choice and prognosis are easier to summarise.
Conclusions. The article presents the basis for new pathologic classification and its role in clinical practice. In addition, the lastest international multidisciplinary consensus of pathological/clinical classification of ihese diseases, having been edited by American Thoracic Society and European Thoracic Society in June 2001, is presented. Every individual entity is illustrated with corresponding histologic pattern of our recently hospitalised typical cases. Finaly, some new therapeutic approaches are introducted which are oriented to actual immunopathogenetic stage of interstitial pulmonary disease.
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