Can pulmonary fibrosis return to normal?

Most cases of pulmonary fibrosis do not fully return to normal. Pulmonary fibrosis is a disease with poor clinical outcomes overall and is normally incurable. For example, connective tissue disease or pulmonary fibrosis secondary to vasculitis, such as idiopathic pulmonary interstitial fibrosis, these are the more common causes of pulmonary fibrosis, these diseases normally can not be cured, even for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis this disease and there is no specific drug, even if given some anti-pulmonary fibrosis drugs for treatment, pulmonary fibrosis disease can not be reversed. For pulmonary fibrosis secondary to connective tissue disease or vasculitis, treatment with drugs such as glucocorticoids or immunosuppressants may be able to reverse the condition of pulmonary fibrosis to a certain extent, but it cannot be cured normally. In addition, there are a few pulmonary fibrosis conditions that may recover, such as cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, which belongs to idiopathic interstitial pneumonia. For this disease, glucocorticoid treatment sometimes has a good effect, and even lung lesions may recover completely.