Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis in Greece-Turkiye-Cyprus: Answers in a Real-Life Comparison.
Inhaled medication alone works as well as invasive lung cleaning for a rare lung disease, avoiding hospitalization for some patients.
Inhaled GM-CSF alone shows comparable efficacy to whole lung lavage (WLL) or combined WLL+iGM-CSF in autoimmune PAP; pulmonary fibrosis development predicts treatment non-response across all therapy groups. This record was retained from the prior triage attempt for PubMed pipeline handoff.
What the study was
- Study design
- retrospective multicenter real-world study (n=130, 20-year follow-up)
- Category
- rare_diseases
- Maturity
- Validated
- Journal
- Respirology
Why it surfaced
Largest reported real-world multicenter cohort for PAP providing evidence that iGM-CSF alone is effective, potentially sparing patients from invasive WLL procedures in this rare disease.
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