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Will Taking Cellcept For Advanced Pulmonary Fibrosis Prevent Or Slow The Disease ?
My husband is taking cellcept for advanced pulmonary fibroses. Capital Caring (Washington DC) hospice care is not willing to pay for this drug. His pulmonary physician said that it might prevent/slow the pulmonary fibrosis. I look forward to your reply/
Fri, 7 Nov 2014
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Cellcept is mycophenolate. It is immuno modulator. It is not antifibrotic drug.
The only antifibrotic drug available for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is PERFINODONE. But it is not effective in end stage fibrosis. It is effective in early developing fibrosis Only.
So for end stage IPF no drug is available to revert fibrosis.
N acetyl cystien and home oxygen are useful in end stage IPF.
Cellcept is mycophenolate. It is immuno modulator. It is not antifibrotic drug.
The only antifibrotic drug available for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is PERFINODONE. But it is not effective in end stage fibrosis. It is effective in early developing fibrosis Only.
So for end stage IPF no drug is available to revert fibrosis.
N acetyl cystien and home oxygen are useful in end stage IPF.
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