pulmonary disorders
Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia
Treatment of Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia
Corticosteroids with or without other immunosuppressive drugs Many patients with nonspecific interstitial pneumonia respond to treatment with corticosteroids, with or without other immunosuppressive drugs (eg,azathioprine,mycophenolate,cyclophosphamide). Prognosis seems to depend most on the degree of fibrosis found during surgical lung biopsy. Almost all patients with primarily cellular disease survive at least 10 years. However, with increasing fibrosis, survival worsens. 