Usefulness and safety of transbronchial lung cryobiopsy for reassessment of treatment in the clinical course of diffuse parenchymal lung disease

Table 2 Baseline characteristics compared to initial TBLC

	reassessment TBLC	initial TBLC	P value
Number of patients	31	712
Gender(male/female)	16/15	401/311	0.606
Age(median)	71.5	68	0.021
%FVC (%)	86.4	85.0	0.697
%DLCO (%)	77.7	74.6	0.468
Number of specimens 1/2/3/4	6/19/6/0	79/437/193/3	0.463
Quality score A/B/C	21/10/0	467/199/38	0.397
Pathological confidence A/B/C	11/19/1	281/339/83	0.215

SLB surgical lung biopsy, TBLB transbronchial lung biopsy, FVC forced vital capacity, DLCO diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide

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