Serial changes of CT findings in patients with chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis: imaging trajectories and predictors of fibrotic progression and acute exacerbation.
Jooae ChoeEun-Jin ChaeYeon Joo KimKyung-Hyun DoJoon Seon SongJin Woo SongPublished in: European radiology (2020)
• Most patients (87%) showed fibrotic progression on long-term follow-up with persistent areas of mosaic attenuation that were finally replaced by fibrosis at a later stage. • One-fifth of patients (22%) experienced acute exacerbation associated with worse prognosis. • Fibrosis score (sum of reticulation and honeycombing) and CT pattern of UIP/probable UIP on baseline CT were independent predictors for predicting fibrotic progression and acute exacerbation.
Keyphrases
- respiratory failure
- end stage renal disease
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- liver failure
- computed tomography
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- drug induced
- prognostic factors
- systemic sclerosis
- image quality
- contrast enhanced
- depressive symptoms
- idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- magnetic resonance imaging
- rheumatoid arthritis
- aortic dissection
- positron emission tomography
- magnetic resonance
- mass spectrometry
- pet ct
- fluorescence imaging