ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2016
A Review of the Multidisciplinary Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Diseases: A Retrospective Analysis in a Single UK Specialist Centre.
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- The Role of the Multidisciplinary Evaluation of Interstitial Lung Diseases: Systematic Literature Review of the Current Evidence and Future Perspectives.Frontiers in medicine · 2019Pooled it
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- Integrated nursing and medical management improves outcomes in pediatric lobar pneumonia: a randomized controlled study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- ILDIM-MFAM: interstitial lung disease identification model with multi-modal fusion attention mechanism.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
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- Diagnosis and Pharmacologic Management of Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- Multidisciplinary teams in the clinical care of fibrotic interstitial lung disease: current perspectives.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2022Review
- Care patterns of patients with chronic fibrosing interstitial lung disease (ILD) with a progressive phenotype.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2022Article
- Demystifying idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: time for more etiology-focused nomenclature in interstitial lung disease.Expert review of respiratory medicine · 2022Review
- Efficacy of Pirfenidone vs. Placebo in Unclassifiable Interstitial Lung Disease, by Surgical Lung Biopsy Status: Data From aFrontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- A comprehensive assessment of environmental exposures and the medical history guides multidisciplinary discussion in interstitial lung disease.Respiratory medicine · 2021Article
- The Application of Transbronchial Lung Cryobiopsy and Uniportal and Tubeless Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery in the Multidisciplinary Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung disease-A Real-World Prospective Study.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021Article
- Clinical and Functional Characteristics of Patients with Unclassifiable Interstitial Lung Disease (uILD): Long-Term Follow-Up Data from European IPF Registry (eurIPFreg).Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Impact of an interstitial lung disease service in the diagnosis and management of interstitial lung disease in Singapore.Singapore medical journal · 2020Article
- Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease Secondary to Autoimmune Diseases: How to Recognize Them?Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
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Abstract
The accurate diagnosis and management of individuals with interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) poses an interesting challenge in clinical practice. A multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach is considered the gold standard. This is a single-centre retrospective review spanning a five-year period. We assessed the accuracy of prior ILD diagnosis, the methodology used to establish a correct diagnosis and how an MDT approach affected subsequent management. Our data supports an MDT approach in an experienced specialist ILD centre. We have demonstrated that diagnosis is often changed after an MDT review and that this impacts the subsequent management. Our results demonstrate that an MDT approach to diagnosis can establish a diagnosis in the majority of cases when prior diagnosis is uncertain (76%). We also show that a prior diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is deemed inaccurate in over 50% of cases after MDT discussion. We have shown that during diagnostic uncertainty the considered gold standard of proceeding to a lung biopsy is not always feasible due to disease severity and comorbidities. In these circumstances, an MDT approach to diagnosis of ILDs combines clinical data with serial lung function and disease behavior, with or without responses to previous treatment trials to establish an accurate expert diagnosis.
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