Argyrios Tzouvelekis
Argyrios Tzouvelekis
1First Academic Department of Pneumonology, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest “Sotiria”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
2Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”, Athens, Greece
1,2,*,†,‡,
Theodoros Karampitsakos
Theodoros Karampitsakos
35th Respiratory Department, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest “Sotiria”, Athens, Greece
3,†,
Paschalis Ntolios
Paschalis Ntolios
4Department of Pneumonology, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece
4,
Vasilios Tzilas
Vasilios Tzilas
1First Academic Department of Pneumonology, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest “Sotiria”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
1,
Evangelos Bouros
Evangelos Bouros
1First Academic Department of Pneumonology, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest “Sotiria”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
1,
Evangelos Markozannes
Evangelos Markozannes
1First Academic Department of Pneumonology, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest “Sotiria”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
1,
Ioanna Malliou
Ioanna Malliou
1First Academic Department of Pneumonology, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest “Sotiria”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
1,
Aris Anagnostopoulos
Aris Anagnostopoulos
1First Academic Department of Pneumonology, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest “Sotiria”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
1,
Andreas Granitsas
Andreas Granitsas
1First Academic Department of Pneumonology, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest “Sotiria”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
1,
Paschalis Steiropoulos
Paschalis Steiropoulos
2Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”, Athens, Greece
2,
Katerina Dimakou
Katerina Dimakou
35th Respiratory Department, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest “Sotiria”, Athens, Greece
3,
Serafeim Chrysikos
Serafeim Chrysikos
4Department of Pneumonology, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece
4,
Nikolaos Koulouris
Nikolaos Koulouris
1First Academic Department of Pneumonology, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest “Sotiria”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
1,
Demosthenes Bouros
Demosthenes Bouros
1First Academic Department of Pneumonology, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest “Sotiria”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
1,‡
1First Academic Department of Pneumonology, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest “Sotiria”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
2Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”, Athens, Greece
35th Respiratory Department, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest “Sotiria”, Athens, Greece
4Department of Pneumonology, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece
Edited and Reviewed by: Mehdi Mirsaeidi, University of Miami, United States
✉*Correspondence: Argyrios Tzouvelekis, argyrios.tzouvelekis@fleming.gr
†These authors have contributed equally to this work.
‡These authors jointly supervised the work.
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Pulmonary Medicine, a section of the journal Frontiers in Medicine
Received 2017 Dec 6; Accepted 2017 Dec 22; Collection date 2017.
Keywords: pirfenidone, safety, efficacy, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, treatment
Copyright © 2018 Tzouvelekis, Karampitsakos, Ntolios, Tzilas, Bouros, Markozannes, Malliou, Anagnostopoulos, Granitsas, Steiropoulos, Dimakou, Chrysikos, Koulouris and Bouros.
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