Exploring efficacy and safety of oral Pirfenidone for progressive, non-IPF lung fibrosis (RELIEF) - a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group, multi-center, phase II trial

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Behr, Jürgen ^a   Neuser, Petra ^b   Prasse, Antje ^c   Kreuter, Michael ^d   Rabe, Klaus ^e   Schade Brittinger, Carmen ^b   Wagner, Jasmin ^f   Günther, Andreas ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY GIESSEN   (Germany)

^g Agaplesion Lung Clinic Waldhof Elgershausen   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ASBESTOS; PIRFENIDONE; PLACEBO; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PYRIDONE DERIVATIVE;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; ASBESTOS RELATED LUNG FIBROSIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLLAGEN VASCULAR DISEASE ASSOCIATED FIBROSIS; COLLAGEN VASCULAR DISEASE ASSOCIATED LUNG FIBROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG FIBROSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; LUNG; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; VITAL CAPACITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; PYRIDONES; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAL CAPACITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85028933315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12890-017-0462-y     Document Type: Article

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