The Globe and Mail CONTENT FROM A RESEARCH-BASED PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY Published February 17, 2021
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Think of healthy lungs like a wet sponge. A wet sponge is easy to squeeze, then quickly expands back to full size - much like easily taking a breath. Now, imagine a dry sponge. A dry sponge is like scarred and stiff lung tissue.
1 It has very little flexibility and makes it difficult to breathe normally.
This is similar to what people living with progressive fibrosing interstitial lung disease (PF-ILD) experience every day. PF-ILD is a rare condition and a subset of interstitial lung disease (ILD). A patient develops a ‘progressive fibrosing phenotype’,