Cutaneous T-cell-attracting chemokine as a novel biomarker for predicting prognosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a prospective observational study

Abstract Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive fibrotic lung disease that leads to respiratory failure and death. Although there is a greater understanding of the etiology of this disease, accurately predicting the disease course in individual patients is still not...

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Main Authors: Takafumi Niwamoto, Tomohiro Handa, Yuko Murase, Yoshinari Nakatsuka, Kiminobu Tanizawa, Yoshio Taguchi, Hiromi Tomioka, Keisuke Tomii, Hideo Kita, Michihiro Uyama, Michiko Tsuchiya, Masahito Emura, Tetsuji Kawamura, Naoki Arai, Machiko Arita, Kazuko Uno, Akihiko Yoshizawa, Ryuji Uozumi, Izumi Yamaguchi, Fumihiko Matsuda, Kazuo Chin, Toyohiro Hirai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-06-01
Series:Respiratory Research
Subjects:
IPF
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-021-01779-9

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