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A Pulmonary fibrosis Idiopathic (REIT) manifests itself primarily through symptoms including fatigue, shortness of breath, and a persistent dry cough.
It is a rare and incurable disease, which mainly affects people over 50 years of age, and especially between 60 and 70 years.
In the month of awareness REIT – September – the population and doctors are alerted to its symptoms, impact and relevancia extreme of an early diagnosis. This is the message of the campaign of the Portuguese Society of Pneumology and RESPIRA, with the support of Boehringer Ingelheim: ‘REIT, the disease that does not wait ”.
According to António Morais, pulmonologist and president since SPP, a REIT it is a chronic disease linked to “the inability to exercise, with limited autonomy, respiratory failure in the most advanced stages of the disease and death”. A scenario that can be significantly delayed with a timely and early diagnosis, given actually there are medications that help treat REIT.
Proceed to make a diagnosis “when the loss of respiratory function is still minimal”, with tests that allow identifying changes in the lungs, such as TAC thoracic, and not devaluing the symptoms that appear is essential for respective diagnosis and treatment.
The president of SPP, consider that the opportune reaction Pulmonary pathology will allow initiating the necessary treatment, thus avoiding the spread of REIT and, thus, provide a better quality of life for patients.
Isabel Saraiva, president of Associação Respira, emphasizes that premature diagnosis “can make the difference between the patient living a few more years with some quality of life or a few years without quality of life.”
Being fundamental “to attract attention, because this disease exists, patients have specific needs, they must have access to diagnoses and treatments and everything that leads to a better quality of life whenever possible,” he says.
Although the causes of the disease are unknown, António Morais says that “genetic predisposition, senescence and the aggressions of factors external no epithelium honeycomb ”may be part of the set of situations that induce REIT.
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