Preliminary study of the anabolic/catabolic balance in patients with interstitial pulmonary fibrosis

Rationale: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a specific form of chronic, progressively fibrosing idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIP), as the disease progress, patients become severely limited in their activity. Hypoxemia is a common finding in IPF and may influence skeletal muscles homeost...

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Main Authors: Ahmed El Hosainy, Safy Kaddah, Mohamed Saied, Aml Ibrahim, Rania Darwish
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2017-07-01
Series:Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0422763816301480