Sentences with phrase «fatal lung scarring»
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified mutations in two genes that cause a fatal lung scarring disease known as familial pulmonary fibrosis.
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It is a progressive, fatal disease characterized by scarring deep in the lung tissue that leads to respiratory or heart failure, pneumonia, and pulmonary embolism.
A progressive scarring of the lungs with no effective treatment, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) affects approximately 50,000 Americans annually, and like some cancers often is fatal within three years.