What acronyms do you wish you knew early in your diagnosis?

[Samuel Kirton]

Hello all…

Are there acronyms you wish you had known or understood early in your diagnosis? PF and IPF in some ways is like a new language that you try to learn quickly. In a recent column here at Pulmonary Fibrosis News I wrote about creating an IPF dictionary.

Who can help build a dictionary here? What acronyms are you willing to share with the PF/IPF Community?

[Joy Hunton]

PFT – Pulmonary Function Test

FVC – Forced Vital Capacity and all the other PFT acronyms

6MW – 6 Minute Walk

POC – Portable Oxygen Concentrator

PAH or PH – Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

 

 

[Ken Mills]

UIP. Usual interstitial pneumonia. Another way of saying pulmonary fibrosis. This was noted in an early CT scan that I had.

Usual interstitial pneumonia ( <b>UIP</b>) is a form of lung disease characterized by progressive scarring of both lungs. [1] The scarring ( fibrosis) involves the pulmonary interstitium (the supporting framework of the lung). <b>UIP</b> is thus classified as a form of interstitial lung disease

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