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Life Expectancy & Prognosis for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis was first described in the English medical literature in 1933 by Dr. Hamman and Dr. Rich. They described the abnormalities of advanced pulmonary fibrosis. For the next 80 years there were many rounds of refinement in the clinical and pathologic description of IPF but no progress in treatment.