As a pulmonologist, Chao He has witnessed the long road that many people have to take on their way to a diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). IPF causes progressive scarring of the lungs ...

This CT scan shows the "honeycomb" pattern of scarring in the lungs of a patient with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive disease with few good treatment options. A new study has found that a ...

Despite patients sharing a usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern on lung CT scans, patients with connective tissue disease-related interstitial lung disease (CTD-ILD) demonstrated a slower ...

Using just one inhalation lung CT scan, a deep learning model can accurately diagnose and stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study published today in Radiology: ...

Delayed IPF diagnosis often results in significant lung function impairment, impacting patient outcomes and increasing hospitalization rates. Antifibrotic therapies, nintedanib and pirfenidone, are ...