New Market Research Report: EpiCast Report: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis - Epidemiology Forecast to 2022
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, fibrosing interstitial pneumonia of unknown cause that occurs primarily in older adults and is associated with a histologic and/or radiologic pattern of usual interstitial pneumonia (NHLBI, 2011; Raghu et al., 2011). As a fatal disease that falls under the umbrella of interstitial lung disease of unknown cause, IPF is limited to the lungs and manifests with irreversible and variable scarring, stiffening, and thickening of the lung tissues that leads to progressively worsening of...
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