Introduction Transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC) is an accepted alternative to surgical
lung biopsy (SLB) for diagnosing diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD) that is less …

Context.—Transbronchial cryobiopsy is an emerging procedure to obtain lung tissue for
diagnosis of interstitial lung disease and has gained popularity because it is less invasive …

Transbronchial cryobiopsy, a new diagnostic procedure in patients with diffuse lung disease,
provides larger and better-preserved lung specimens compared to forceps biopsy. The …

The evaluation of a patient with fibrotic interstitial lung disease (ILD) includes assessment of
clinical, radiological, and often histopathological data. There are currently no specific …

Background: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a complex and heterogeneous group of acute
and chronic lung diseases of several known and unknown causes. While clinical practice …

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive lung disease associated with significant
morbidity and mortality. The diagnosis of IPF involves a combination of clinical history …

The past decade has seen somewhat of a shift away from diagnostic thoracic surgery due
largely to a rapid development in technologies in interventional pulmonology (IP) …

Background Transbronchial cryobiopsy (TBCB) has been widely used to diagnose interstitial
lung disease (ILD). Existing reports on TBCB in ILD are mostly single-center prospective or …

Background Surgical lung biopsy for interstitial lung disease (ILD) is traditionally performed
through video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and general anesthesia (GA). The mortality …

The past few years have signaled a major breakthrough on the management of idiopathic
pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Finally, we have drugs in our arsenal able to slow down the …