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Connective tissue diseases (CTDs) (also referred to as collagen vascular diseases [CVDs], because collagen is typically affected, and there may be a vascular component) are a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by the presence of autoantibodies, such as systemic sclerosis (SSc), rheumatoi...
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Management of a patient with connective tissue interstitial lung disease (CTD-ILD) depends on disease severity with a focus on improving quality of life. Therapeutic interventions include medications, which aim to prevent progression to fibrosis and decrease inflammation or alveolitis, supplemental oxygen...
Is connective tissue disease serious? Connective tissue disease can sometimes cause serious and deadly health problems, such as: High blood pressure in your lungs (pulmonary hypertension) Lung scarring (interstitial lung disease), which makes it hard to breathe Heart disease (your heart may become ...
Lung disease is a common manifestation of connective tissue disease (CTD) and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The evaluation of lung disease, and interstitial lung disease (ILD) in particular, in patients with CTD is complex because of the heterogeneity of the CTDs and ...
Connective tissue diseases (CTDs) include a spectrum of multisystem disorders. Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is an important cause of considerable morbidity and mortality in CTD patients. Although the various CTDs associated with ILD are often considered together because of their shared autoimmune na...
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) in connective tissue disease (CTD) is characterized using the classification of the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias. Systemic sclerosis is most frequently associated with ILD and, in most of these patients, ILD manifests as a histological pattern of nonspecific ...
Connective tissue diseases: Bosentan treatment unable to alter the progression of interstitial lung disease in patients with SScNature Reviews Rheumatology 6, 309 (2010). doi:10.1038/nrrheum.2 ...doi:10.1038/nrrheum.2010.74Katrin LeggNature Reviews Rheumatology...
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is common in connective tissue disease (CTD) and is the leading cause of mortality. Investigators have used certain outcome measures in randomized controlled trials (RCT) in CTD-ILD, but the lack of a systematically developed, CTD-specific index that captures all ...