Disentangling Computed Tomography Pattern and Extent to Estimate Prognosis in Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Diseases
Clinicians generally have two objectives when evaluating patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD). The first is to assimilate clinical and phenotypic information to confer a singular ILD diagnosis, which broadly informs medical management and estimated prognosis. The second objective is to identify personal factors that necessitate alterations to the standard diagnosis-based management approach. Several studies have demonstrated that information gained from computed tomography (CT) can advance both