How long does pulmonary fibrosis last?

First of all, it is necessary to understand that pulmonary fibrosis is a very large clinical concept disease. Clinically, it is often said that it has more than 200 causes. Different causes cause the degree of progression of the disease. Therefore, its prognosis or survival period, or how long it lives, is definitely different. Clinically, because pulmonary fibrosis is irreversible sclerosis of the lung, first of all, this disease, it has no good way to treat, this is /confirm/ied. Of course, some patients with mild pulmonary fibrosis may not progress for a long time, and their survival period is not affected. For some severe pulmonary fibrosis, the prognosis is relatively poor, such as IpF idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Indeed, clinically, many data statistics are only about 3-5 years. Of course, most of the fibrosis is some common fibrosis, or some secondary to the immune system disease fibrosis, as long as this kind of disease is well controlled, the entire survival period is not much affected. Therefore, once you encounter pulmonary fibrosis clinically, you should first go to the specialist clinic for a clear diagnosis, especially to find the cause, of course, if you can find the cause, you must carry out corresponding treatment according to the cause.