{"title":"[Anti-fibrotics as novel therapy for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis].","authors":"M. Funke-Chambour, T. Geiser","doi":"10.1024/0040-5930/a000751","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Recent studies have shown efficacy to slow the decrease of forced vital capacity in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. This summary refers to recent anti-fibrotic medications and describes current studies, indication for treatment and side effects, as well as discusses open questions of treatment.","PeriodicalId":87030,"journal":{"name":"Therapeutische Umschau und medizinische Bibliographie. Revue therapeutique et bibliographie medicale","volume":"33 1","pages":"25-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Therapeutische Umschau und medizinische Bibliographie. Revue therapeutique et bibliographie medicale","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1024/0040-5930/a000751","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Recent studies have shown efficacy to slow the decrease of forced vital capacity in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. This summary refers to recent anti-fibrotic medications and describes current studies, indication for treatment and side effects, as well as discusses open questions of treatment.