Impact of pulmonary vascular volume on mortality in IPF: is it time to reconsider the role of vasculature in disease pathogenesis and progression?. Issue 2 (23rd February 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Puxeddu, Ermanno; Cavalli, Francesco; Pezzuto, Gabriella; Teodori, Elisa; Rogliani, Paola
• Is Part Of: European respiratory journal. Volume 49:Issue 2(2017)
• Publication Date: 2017-02-23
• Subjects: Respiratory organs -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Respiration -- Periodicals; 616.2
• DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02345-2016
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0903-1936

Abstract

The article by Jacob et al . [1], reporting a computer-based computed tomography (CT) approach able to provide a precise quantification of disease extension in idiopathic publmonary fibrosis (IPF) patients by means of specific computer algorithm, CALIPER, is very interesting. Vascular disarrangement as a possible central event in disease progression in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) http://ow.ly/hln3307TyBk