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Serum surfactant protein D as a prognostic factor idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients /

Haidi Abdallah Abuhussein

Serum surfactant protein D as a prognostic factor idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients / مصل بروتين (د) الخافض للتوتر السطحى كعامل تنبؤى لمرضى التليف الرئوى مجهول السبب Haidi Abdallah Abuhussein ; Supervised Dawlat Elmiligy , Laila Ahmed Rashed , Mohamed Wafai Zakaria - Cairo : Haidi Abdallah Abuhussein , 2011 - 106 P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Medical Biochemistry

Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is defined as aspecific form of chronic fibrosing interstitial pneumonia that is limited to the lung and associated with the histological appearance of UIP on a surgical lung biopsy . The diagnosis of IPF can only be made after the exclusion of other known causes of interstitial lung disease such as drug toxicities environmental exposures and collagen vascular diseases



Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Pulmonary fibrosis Pulmonary surfactant