Korean Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Registry

Korean Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Registry

This is a multicenter prospective registry of IPF patients in South Korea. The Seoul National University Bundang Hospital is the coordination center for the Korean IPF Registry built by a collaboration of the Korean Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD) Study Group.

Korean ILD Study Group includes investigators of 30 hospitals. Demographic, pulmonary function, laboratory data, chest CT findings and hospital course of IPF patients are collected.

Inclusion Criteria:

• IPF patients diagnosed by multidisciplinary discussion

Exclusion Criteria:

• Other interstitial lung diseases except for IPF
• connective tissue disease-related ILD
• exposure-related ILD