Interstitial lung disease: Retrospective study of the prognostic impact of acute exacerbations
Joana M Pacheco, Ana I Santos, Joana Catarata, Sara Freitas · 2024
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Joana Pacheco, Ana Santos, Joana Catarata, and Sara Freitas look back at hospital stays for flare-ups of scarring lung disease in Coimbra, Portugal, in a 2024 study. Such flare-ups often send patients to hospital and carry a high death rate. The team compared the most common scarring disease with two other forms over two years of admissions.
Patients with the common form stayed in hospital far longer, about twenty-one days on average, than the other groups. Death rates, though, did not differ between the forms. The authors link the longer stays to the steady worsening of that disease despite steroid care, and they note that flare-ups of any scarring disease remain dangerous.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Joana M Pacheco, Ana I Santos, Joana Catarata, Sara Freitas |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 13 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |