Pirfenidone for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Carlos Aravena; Gonzalo Labarca; Carmen Venegas; Alex Arenas; Gabriel Rada

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0136160

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Pirfenidone for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Carlos Aravena ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Aravena, Gonzalo Labarca

* E-mail: caravenal@med.puc.cl

Current address: Department of Respiratory diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Marcoleta 350, Santiago, Chile

Affiliation Department of Respiratory diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Gonzalo Labarca ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Aravena, Gonzalo Labarca

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Evidence Based Health Care Program, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Carmen Venegas ,

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Respiratory diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Alex Arenas ,

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Gabriel Rada

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Evidence Based Health Care Program, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Epistemonikos foundation, Santiago, Chile
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Pirfenidone for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Carlos Aravena,
Gonzalo Labarca,
Carmen Venegas,
Alex Arenas,
Gabriel Rada

Published: August 26, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136160

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