Mortality in combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema patients is determined by the sum of pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema.
An ZhaoEyjolfur GudmundssonNesrin MogulkocMark G JonesColine van MoorselTamera J CorteChiara RomeiRecep SavasChristopher J BreretonHendrik W van EsHelen JoAnnalisa De LiperiOmer UnatKatarina PontoppidanFrouke van BeekMarcel VeltkampPeter HopkinsYuben MoodleyAlessandro TalianiLaura TavantiBahareh GholipourArjun NairSamuel M JanesIain D StewartDavid BarberDaniel C AlexanderAthol U WellsJoseph JacobPublished in: ERJ open research (2021)
In patients with combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema, emphysema and fibrosis do not have a synergistic effect that results in worsened survival when compared to IPF patients without emphysema https://bit.ly/35EJMo6.