IPF and CPFE — the two different entities or two different presentations of the same disease?

In this article the co-existence of pulmonary emphysema with lung fibrosis of typical pattern and distribution for usual interstitialpneumonia (UIP) was compared with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) alone. Author discusses the etiopathogenesis of thesediseases, differences in signaling pathways and the role of senescent cells. Moreover, clinical course, pulmonary function testsas well as main complications are reviewed. However, the lack of well-established diagnostic criteria for CPFE along with mainlyretrospective character of the studies make current knowledge about this entity rather deficient