Small airway lesions appear with the course of IPF and relate to the severity of pulmonary fibrosis progression
Small airway abnormalities, including increased airway counts and functional impairment, are detectable in early-stage IPF and persist throughout disease progression, suggesting that small airway involvement is a fundamental feature of IPF.
Authors
- Dingyun Song
- Xiaoyan Wang
- Huaping Dai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1124-1582)
- Min Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5059-3743)
- Xinran Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7433-7974)
- Ling Zhao
Institutions
- Capital Medical University (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CN)
- Peking University (CN)
- China-Japan Friendship Hospital (CN)
- Chinese PLA General Hospital (CN)
- Beijing Jishuitan Hospital (CN)
- Beijing Friendship Hospital (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Pulmonary Medicine
- Published
- 2025-10-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-025-03939-9
- Primary Topic
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China