Medical Researchers Profile Genes In Acutely Ill Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 01:28
in Health & Medicine
The first findings from a one-of-a-kind, patient-driven effort to provide lung tissue for research might help doctors predict when patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are becoming dangerously ill and also could point the way to interventions that could sustain them until life-saving transplants can be performed. The study addresses a dilemma in IPF care that currently is unsolved.
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