Elena De Zorzi, Paolo Spagnolo, Elisabetta Cocconcelli, Elisabetta Balestro, Luca Iaccarino, Mariele Gatto, Francesco Benvenuti, Nicol Bernardinello, Andrea Doria, Toby M Maher, Elisabetta Zanatta
Thoracic involvement is one of the main determinants of morbidity and mortality in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs), with different prevalence and manifestations according to the underlying disease. Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is the most common pulmonary complication, particularly in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Other thoracic manifestations include pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), mostly in patients with SSc, airway disease, mainly in RA, and pleural involvement, which is common in systemic lupus erythematosus and RA, but rare in other ARDs...
December 2022: Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology