Remote monitoring for patient with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Pieter Van Der Wal first noticed something was wrong on a climbing trip with his wife Nelly in 2013. “I was out of breath, and struggling with the climb”, he tells The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. Pieter, now aged 74 years, believed the problem was with his heart, and that is what he told both the doctor where he was on holiday in Austria, and his local general practitioner (GP) when he returned to his home in Ridderkerk (The Netherlands). As he didn't do quite so much physical activity, the symptoms of breathlessness went away.