Guidelines of the Polish Respiratory Society for diagnosis and treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Adv Respir Med
; 88(1): 41-93, 2020.
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INTRODUCTION: This document presents the guidelines of the Polish Respiratory Society (PTChP, Polskie Towarzystwo Chorób Pluc) for diagnosis and treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), developed by agroup of Polish experts. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The recommendations were developed in the form of answers to previously formulated questions concer-ning everyday diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. They were developed based on acurrent literature review using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology. RESULTS: We formulated 28 recommendations for diagnosis (8), pharmacological treatment (12) as well as non-pharma-cological and palliative therapy (8). The experts suggest that surgical lung biopsy (SLB) not be performed in patients with the probable usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern, with an appropriate clinical context and unanimous opinion of a multidisciplinary team. The experts recommend using antifibrotic agents in IPF patients and suggest their use irrespective of the degree of functional impairment. As regards non-pharmacological and palliative treatment, strong re-commendations were formulated regarding pulmonary rehabilitation, oxygen therapy (in patients with chronic respiratory failure), preventive vaccinations as well as referring IPF patients to transplant centres. Table 1 presents an aggregate list of recommendations. CONCLUSIONS: The Polish Respiratory Society Working Group developed guidelines for IPF diagnosis and treatment.
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Asunto principal:
Sociedades Médicas
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Pautas de la Práctica en Medicina
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Competencia Clínica
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Fibrosis Pulmonar Idiopática
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Guideline
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Prognostic_studies
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Humans
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En
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Adv Respir Med
Año:
2020
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Article
País de afiliación:
Polonia
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Suiza