Pirfenidone for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive disease with poor prognosis. In the last decades pirfenidone an anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic agent has shown benefit in inhibit collagen production and has also demonstrated benefit in decline progression in IPF in physiological outcomes as...

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Main Authors: Carlos Aravena, Gonzalo Labarca, Carmen Venegas, Alex Arenas, Gabriel Rada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4550327?pdf=render