Peripheral Blood-Based Proteinomic Test for The Diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)
SUMMARY The current clinical standards for diagnosing idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) include lung biopsies and radiographic examination, which cannot reliably discriminate between IPF patients and those with similarly presenting lung diseases. The inventors used a multianalyte protein system to assay levels of 49 plasma proteins in a cohort of 74… Read More