… pattern lung disease, though the small number of subjects in our series limits the significance
of this finding. However, on regression analysis, no prognostic significance could be …

… that smoking can cause clinically significant interstitial lung disease, with deterioration in …
“smoking related interstitial lung disease” is suggested for those patients who are smokers. …

… disease, and patients with inflammatory lung disease have … with ILA have reductions in lung
volume, functional limitations, … patients with clinically significant interstitial lung disease (ILD). …

… that would be considered clinically significant. This is known as the minimal important
difference (MID) and refers to the smallest change that patients and clinicians would consider …

… available to date regarding the clinical significance of this special phenotype in CF lung
disease. We therefore investigated the prevalence of S. aureus SCVs in CF lung disease in a 12-…

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 An overview of the ILD guideline Since the publication of the first
BTS guidelines for diffuse lung disease nearly 10years ago, 1 the specialty has seen …

… physiologic testing, lung imaging studies, bronchoalveolar lavage, surgical lung biopsy, and
… clinical practice that took place in the management of patients with interstitial lung diseases …

… from other types of interstitial lung disease and that monitoring of serum monocyte
chemoattractant protein-1 may be useful for predicting the clinical course of interstitial lung diseases. …

… M avium and M intracellulare lung disease. MAC lung disease is becoming more common
in Korea.12, 13, 14 In this study, we compared the clinical features and prognoses of patients …

… has characteristic clinical significance, being … clinical significance and the new detection
systems for MSAs/MAAs specifically associated with both myositis and interstitial lung disease …