University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Team First To Profile Genes In Acutely Ill Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients

EurekAlert! -- PITTSBURGH, July 7 – The first findings from a one-of-a-kind, patient-driven effort to provide lung tissue for research might help doctors predict when patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are becoming dangerously ill and also could point the way to interventions that could sustain them until life-saving transplants can be performed.

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