Rationale: Workplace inhalational hazards remain common worldwide, even though they
are ameliorable. Previous American Thoracic Society documents have assessed the …

A proportion of patients with fibrosing interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) develop a progressive
phenotype characterised by decline in lung function, worsening quality of life and early …

Background: This American Thoracic Society, European Respiratory Society, Japanese
Respiratory Society, and Asociación Latinoamericana de Tórax guideline updates prior …

Background: This guideline addresses the diagnosis of hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP). It
represents a collaborative effort among the American Thoracic Society, Japanese …

Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a form of chronic lung disease characterized by pathologic
epithelial remodeling and accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM). To comprehensively …

This section of the 32nd official International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
(ISHLT) Registry Report of 2015 summarizes data from 51,440 adult lung and 3,820 adult …

We used data from the INBUILD and INPULSIS trials to investigate the natural history of
progressive fibrosing interstitial lung diseases (ILDs). Subjects in the two INPULSIS trials …

Background: The presence of emphysema is relatively common in patients with fibrotic
interstitial lung disease. This has been designated combined pulmonary fibrosis and …

Rationale: Surgical lung biopsy is often required for a confident multidisciplinary diagnosis
of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Alternative, less-invasive biopsy methods, such as …

Rationale: The diagnostic concordance between transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC)—
versus surgical lung biopsy (SLB) as the current gold standard—in interstitial lung disease …