• 1. Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine,Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine,Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, P. R. China;
QIU Yuying, Email: qiuyuying1402@sina.com
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Objectives To compare the clinical features of combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).Methods Eighty-three patients diagnosed as CPFE or IPF for the first time were retrospectively analyzed from June 2014 to July 2018 in Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, including 47 patients in the CPFE group and 36 in the IPF group. The demographic characteristics, clinical manifestations, pulmonary function, cardiac ultrasound, blood gas analysis and prognosis of the two groups were compared.Results The proportion of smokers in the CPFE group was higher than IPF group (P<0.05), but dyspnea was lower (P<0.05). The FVC, FVC%pred, FEV1, FEV1%pred and VC% of the CPFE group were higher than IPF group (P<0.05), while FEV1/FVC%pred in the IPF group was higher than CPFE group (P<0.05). DLCO/VA%pred of CPFE group decreased more significantly than IPF group (P<0.05), RV/TLC%pred of CPFE group increased annually, while decreased annually in IPF group (P<0.01). The RV%pred of CPFE increased annually, while that of IPF group decreased annually (P<0.05). There was no significant difference in arterial oxygen pressure and pulmonary artery pressure between the two groups. As for prognosis, the 1- and 3-year survival rate of the CPFE group were 87.9% and 73.8% respectively, those of the IPF group were 84.1% and 65.8% respectively, and no significantly difference was observed between two groups (P=0.95).Conclusions Compared with IPF, patients with CPFE usually have more smokers, less proportion of dyspnea, almost normal lung volume, more rapidly decreased DLCO/VA%pred, and no significant difference in prognosis.

Citation: LIN Minjie, ZHANG Yingwei, CHENG Lulu, LIU Xiaoqing, WANG Yanhong, QIU Yuying. Comparison of the clinical features of combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Chinese Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2020, 19(6): 548-553. doi: 10.7507/1671-6205.201911017 Copy

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