Treatment and Prognosis of Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias*
Disorder | Treatment | Prognosis |
|---|---|---|
Lung transplantation | Mortality rate: 50–70% in 5 years | |
Smoking cessation | 70% survival at 10 years | |
Mortality rate: widely variable, but generally better than idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; in purely cellular disease (rare), extremely low | ||
Corticosteroids | 5-year survival rate is > 90% | |
Respiratory bronchiolitis–associated interstitial lung disease | Smoking cessation | Mortality rate: Rare with smoking cessation |
Supportive care; often corticosteroids | Mortality rate: > 50% in < 6 months | |
Corticosteroids | Not well defined | |
Appropriate treatment unknown; often corticosteroids | 5-year survival rates approximately 25 to 60% | |
* Listed in order of decreasing frequency. | ||
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