ReviewMultidisciplinary respiratory medicine2019
Contribution of pulmonary function tests (PFTs) to the diagnosis and follow up of connective tissue diseases.
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- A Practical Multidisciplinary Approach to Identifying Interstitial Lung Disease in Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases: A Clinician's Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- 2023 TSOC-TACVPR-TACPAH Consensus Statement of the Rehabilitation on Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension.Acta Cardiologica Sinica · 2024Article
- The role of the pulmonary function laboratory to assist in disease management: connective tissue diseases.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2024Article
- Screening, diagnosis, and monitoring of interstitial lung disease in autoimmune rheumatic diseases: A narrative review.Revista colombiana de reumatologia · 2024Article
- Spirometry Reference Equations Including Existing and Novel Parameters.The open respiratory medicine journal · 2023Article
- Towards Early Diagnosis of Mixed Connective Tissue Disease: Updated Perspectives.ImmunoTargets and therapy · 2023Review
- Clinical and Radiological Features of Interstitial Lung Diseases Associated with Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Review
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Lung Involvement: A Comprehensive Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Lung involvement in children with newly diagnosed rheumatic diseases: characteristics and associations.Pediatric rheumatology online journal · 2022Article
- Clinical and radiological features of lung disorders related to connective-tissue diseases: a pictorial essay.Insights into imaging · 2022Review
- Risk factors for progression of interstitial lung disease in Sjögren's syndrome: a single-centered, retrospective study.Clinical rheumatology · 2022Article
- The respiratory manifestations in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome: is interstitial lung disease related to disease activity?Turkish journal of medical sciences · 2022Article
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- Diagnosis, Clinical Features and Management of Interstitial Lung Diseases in Rheumatic Disorders: Still a Long Journey.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Relationship Between Rheumatoid Arthritis and Pulmonary Function Measures on Spirometry in the UK Biobank.Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2021Article
- Dominating Cause of Pulmonary Hypertension May Change Over Time-Diagnostic and Therapeutic Considerations in a Patient with Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Rheumatoid Arthritis with Lung Involvement.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionConnective Tissue Diseases (CTDs) are systemic autoimmune conditions characterized by frequent lung involvement. This usually takes the form of Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD), but Obstructive Lung Disease (OLD) and Pulmonary Artery Hypertension (PAH) can also occur. Lung involvement is often severe, representing the first cause of death in CTD. The aim of this study is to highlight the role of Pulmonary Function Tests (PFTs) in the diagnosis and follow up of CTD patients. MAIN BODY: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) showed mainly an ILD with a Usual Interstitial Pneumonia (UIP) pattern in High-Resolution Chest Tomography (HRCT). PFTs are able to highlight a RA-ILD before its clinical onset and to drive follow up of patients with Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) and Carbon Monoxide Diffusing Capacity (DL
conclusionsThe lung should be carefully studied during CTDs. PFTs can represent an important prognostic tool for diagnosis and follow up of RA-ILD, but, on their own, lack sufficient specificity or sensitivity to describe lung involvement in SSDs and IIMs. Several composite indexes potentially able to describe the evolution of lung damage and response to treatment in SSDs are under investigation. Considering the potential severity of these conditions, an HRCT jointly with PFTs should be performed in all new diagnoses of SSDs and IIMs. Moreover, follow up PFTs should be interpreted in the light of the risk factor for respiratory disease related to each disease.
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