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Rare lung disease cells indicate higher death risk
Date:1/16/2008

r lavage. The technique involves passing a bronchoscope through the mouth of the patient and into the lungs. Saline is squirted into a small part of the affected lung and then recollected for examination.

The team evaluated the cell count of 156 people with IPF at the time the disease began to make its appearance.

With this information, we can now work to identify neutrophil cells in patients lungs and provide detailed information for more accurate diagnosis, says Kinder, who is also director of the newly established Interstitial Lung Disease Center at UC.

It is our hope that this accurate prognostic information will become even more useful as effective treatments become available.


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University of Cincinnati
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