Abstract

To reverse the irreversible is the dream of every physician. In pulmonary medicine, emphysema and chronic fibrosis are examples of anatomical lesions that do not regress with existing therapies and, to date, complete prevention of progression has not been achieved. Trial endpoints have not indicated the regeneration of normal tissue or the restoration of pulmonary function in fibrotic lung disease. In idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, nintedanib and pirfenidone attenuate, but do not prevent, disease progression.

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