Palliative care for patients with pulmonary fibrosis: symptom relief is essential

Symptom burden plagues patients with progressive fibrotic interstitial lung disease (PF-ILD) [1]; this symptom burden, in combination with poor prognosis and uncertainty of disease course heavily impacts quality of life, both for patients and family members [2, 3]. Patients with PF-ILD are confronted with a wide range of diagnoses and prognoses; some may live many years with a disease that is responsive to treatment, while others with PF-ILD often have a disease trajectory similar to and/or worse than that of lung cancer [4, 5].
Source: European Respiratory Journal - Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Tags: Editorials Source Type: research