ABSTRACT
La fibrosis pulmonar idiopática (FPI) se ha clasificado en enfermedad leve o temprana-moderada-severa o Avanzada, sin puntos de corte en parámetros clínicos, funcionales o imagenológicos. No existe aún consenso en cual es el principal parámetro que se debe medir. Si bien las variables funcionales como la capacidad vital forzada (CVF), capacidad de difusión de monóxido de carbono (DLCO) y test de caminata de 6 minutos se han utilizado de forma rutinaria en la practica clínica y en los principales estudios clínicos de tratamiento muchas veces no son representativos de la evolución clínica. Por lo anterior se han desarrollado, índices o puntajes compuestos como la escala GAP (Gender-Age-Physiology) que podrían ser útiles en el seguimiento de los pacientes.
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) has been classified as mild or early - moderate - severe or advanced disease, with no cut-off points in clinical, functional or imaging parameters. There is no consensus yet on which is the main parameter to be measured although the functional variables such as forced vital capacity (FVC), carbon monoxide diffusion capacity (DLCO) and 6-minute walk test, have been routinely used in clinical practice and in the main clinical studies of treatment, are often not representative of the clinical evolution. Therefore, composite indices or scores such as the GAP (Gender-Age-Physiology) scale have been developed that could be useful in the follow-up of patients.
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Humans , Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis/diagnosis , Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis/physiopathology , Respiratory Function Tests/methods , Clinical Evolution , Risk Assessment , Cough/etiology , Dyspnea/etiologyABSTRACT
The Hantavirus Cardio Pulmonary Syndrome (HCPS) was observed for first time in the Región of Aysén in December of 1996. The recommended treatment is guided to manage the shock and the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome(ARDS) with a 50 per cent of outcome in 1988, This illnes is produced as consequence of the guest's exaggerated immune answer before the presence of the virus. Many papers report clear benefits of the corticosteroids use in patient with severe sepsis and ARDS in bacterial meningitis, serious typhoid fever, in acute medullary lesion and P. carinii pneumonia. Theoretically, the guest's inflammatory answer in the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and ARDS is possible of being modified with the antiinflamatorios, inmuno-supresores or corticosteroids employment. Supposing that the corticosteroids use in early stages of the illnes could reduce the severity and to prevent the death of these patients, it took us to begin a protocol of the patients treatment with HCPS, using Methylprednisolone (MP) in high dose. A retrospective and prospective study of patients was admitted in the ICU of the Coyhaique Hospital with these inclusion approach: 1) fever, migraine, mialgias, diarrhea y/o vomits and lives in endemic area; 2) front chest film with bilateral interstitial edema; 3) blood count with deviation to left of the white series, trombocytophenia (<150,000/ml) and inmunoblasts greater than 10 per cent of the linfocyts. Dose of MP 1.000 mg/day EV x 3 days + 16 mg PO x 5 days. Since december 1996 the MP has been used in 27 patients with SPCH, half age 32,7 years old range 2 to 60 years. Since september 1997 the MP has been used in 15 patients, 2 women and 13 men, half age 36.3 years old and range among 19 to 57 years. All the cases were confirmed with presence of positive IgM. The general mortality is 37 per cent (10/27), of the group control 50 per cent (6/12) and of the group that use MP 26,6 per cent (4/15). 14.3 per cent of the group MP that make moderate shock (1/7) it dies, versus 50 per cent (3/6) of the group control. The patients that make ARDS 75 per cent die (6/8) in the group control and 33.3 per cent (4/12) in the group MP (p=0.08). According to the day of beginning of the MP, used the day 5° the patients don't make shock neither ARDS.