ILD is common among rheumatologic diseases, and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality1,3 Histologic presentation of autoimmune ILD is variable, ranging from inflammatory to fibrotic1 Clinical manifestations of autoimmune ILD also vary greatly, ranging from clinically insignificant or mild...
Article: Connective tissue disease-related interstitial lung disease (CTD-ILD) and interstitial lung abnormality (ILA): Evolving concept of CT find
Yunjoo.ImDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine (SKKU-SOM), Seoul, Korea.Hiroto.HatabuCenter for Pulmonary Functional Imaging, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical...
The connective tissue diseases (CTDs) demonstrating features of interstitial lung disease (ILD) include systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS), dermatomyositis (DM) and polymyositis (PM), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), Sjogren's syndrome (SS...