TO STUDY CLINICORADIOLOGICAL PROFILE OF IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS (IPF) PATIENTS

Abstract

Background - The term "interstitial lung disease" (ILD), or diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD), represents a group of about 200 distinct disorders. Idiopathic pulmonary brosis (IPF) is one of the most severe forms of IIP. This study aims to observe clinicoradiological prole of idiopathic pulmonary brosis patients. A cross-sectional observational study (inpatients and out Methods- patients) visiting the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal for the period of 18 months from November 2019 to April 2021, diagnosed to have Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) by HRCT who meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The incidence of IPF is higher in males as Resultcompared to females. It appears mainly between the fth and seventh decades of life ,the mean age of IPF was 58.86 ± 11.93, and the maximum number of patients came under the age of 51–60 years .In this study, breathlessness and cough were the predominant symptoms in denitive UIP. The severity of breathlessness is higher in denitive UIP. In our study every patient with IPF, we found to have an abnormal chest xray. Hence, chest xray should be the rst investigation in any suspected case of IPF. The commonest chest radiographic abnormality in patients with IPF is peripheral reticular opacity, most marked at the bases. In this study, the most common HRCT Chest ndings in IPF patients were reticulations, subpleural and basal involvement, and brosis. In this study, the most common pattern of idiopathi Conclusion- c pulmonary brosis was denitive UIP and most common age group was 51–60 years old and IPF reveals a male predominance. Clubbing was found in 39.4% of patient's maximum with denitive UIP (28.8%). On auscultation, the most common ndings are ne crackles and the most common ndings on HRCT are reticulations So, the nal diagnosis of IPF is a multidisciplinary approach. Further study is needed with a larger sample size to understand the disease in detail.