EDITORIAL
Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis
What is this thing called CFA?
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
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Dr A U Wells
Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK; a.wells@rbh.nthames.nhs.uk
The term "cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis"should now be used as strictly synonymous with "idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis"
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Arcane diagnostic labels bother clinicians. The diffuse lung disease lexicon is a notorious example. For decades, "diffuse lung disease speak" consisted of an unholy mix of histopathological and clinical terms, varying between countries, within countries and even between medical teams in the same hospital. Radical change was required and proposals were advanced in a joint American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society (ATS/ERS) initiative. Terminology for idiopathic interstitial pneumonia was distilled by a core group of clinicians, radiologists and pathologists, and this was then circulated to a larger group of international reviewers and published in 2002.1 The final consensus classification was not, at first sight, straightforward to apply. Indeed, the amorphous entity of "non-specific interstitial pneumonia" (NSIP) continues to vex clinicians and requires further subclassification. However, teething problems aside, the ATS/ERS initiative has been an outstanding success. Clinicians and researchers worldwide now understand each other better than
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