Table 1.
Patient Demographics
Characteristics | Healthy Volunteers (n = 6) | Patients |
|
---|---|---|---|
IPF (n = 8) | Organizing Pneumonia (n = 6) | ||
Male sex, n (%) | 2 (33) | 5 (63) | 5 (83) |
Age, yr, mean ± SD | 55 ± 28 | 65 ± 12 | 63 ± 16 |
Age distribution, n (%) | |||
15 to <25 | 2 (33) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
25 to <50 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (17) |
50 to <80 | 4 (67) | 8 (100) | 5 (83) |
Definition of abbreviation: IPF = idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Two of the patients with organizing pneumonia presented with a mixed usual interstitial pneumonia/organizing pneumonia pathology.