PFF Summit: Pharmacologic Therapy

This video, shared by the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, is of a webinar filmed at the PFF Summit: From Bench to Bedside held in Washington D.C. in November 2015.

Find out more from the Bench to Bedside Summit about managing pulmonary fibrosis symptoms.

Dr. Charlene D. Fell presents a talk about pharmacologic therapy and discusses two drugs which were approved for use in the treatment of pulmonary fibrosis in October 2014: pirfenidone and nintedanib. She explains how these medications work in treating the disease and talks about how the FDA came to approve the therapies following the results of clinical trials.

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