Ian Johnston

TL;DR: The Diagnostic Process Is Dynamic Clinical Evaluation Radiological Evaluation Role of Surgical Lung Biopsy Unclassifiable Interstitial Pneumonia Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Evaluation Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.

TL;DR: Occupational exposures to metal or wood dust are independent risk factors for cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis and avoidance or limitation of these exposures may provide an opportunity to prevent the disease.

TL;DR: CFA is predominantly a disease of elderly patients and has a poor prognosis and Physicians generally considered CFA to be a clinical diagnosis and did not initiate treatment in up to half of patients at presentation.

TL;DR: Factors related to small families and relative affluence in childhood promote atopic sensitization to a variety of aeroallergens in later life, consistent with the suggestion that early infection may protect against subsequent allergic disease.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of childhood pneumonia and whooping cough in 1392 British adults followed from their births in 1958 were studied, and a history of pneumonia was associated with deficits in both forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC).