This is all to say he has chronic lung disease. He has findings of possible fibrosis on CXR and a history certainly concerning for smoking-related lung disease. HRCT will tell us if he has a pattern characteristic of UIP (e.g. idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) or something potentially more treatable like NSIP or just run of the mill COPD.
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This is all to say he has chronic lung disease. He has findings of possible fibrosis on CXR and a history certainly concerning for smoking-related lung disease. HRCT will tell us if he has a pattern characteristic of UIP (e.g. idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) or something potentially more treatable like NSIP or just run of the mill COPD.