Time for a change: is idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis still idiopathic and only fibrotic?
Wolters PJ, Blackwell TS, Eickelberg O, Loyd JE, Kaminski N, Jenkins G, Maher TM, Molina-Molina M, Noble PW, Raghu G, Richeldi L, Schwarz MI, Selman M, Wuyts WA, Schwartz DA. Time for a change: is idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis still idiopathic and only fibrotic? The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 2018, 6: 154-160. PMID: 29413083, PMCID: PMC5903445, DOI: 10.1016/s2213-2600(18)30007-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIdiopathic pulmonary fibrosisPulmonary fibrosisDevelopment of IPFFatal lung diseaseAlveolar epithelial cellsClinical presentationDistal airwaysLung diseaseFibroblast fociSubpleural fibrosisMicroscopic honeycombingPathogenic mechanismsFibrosisDiseaseEpithelial cellsMolecular mechanismsAirwayPathogenesisHoneycombingCentral driver