A 16-year Follow-up Case of Interstitial Pneumonia with Systemic Sclerosis-rheumatoid Arthritis Overlap Syndrome.

A 16-year Follow-up Case of Interstitial Pneumonia with Systemic Sclerosis-rheumatoid Arthritis Overlap Syndrome. Intern Med. 2017;56(12):1557-1561 Authors: Yamakawa H, Hagiwara E, Yamanaka Y, Ikeda S, Sekine A, Kitamura H, Baba T, Okudela K, Iwasawa T, Takemura T, Ogura T Abstract Interstitial pneumonia is a common and major comorbidity affecting the prognosis of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). However, there are few reported cases of SSc-rheumatoid arthritis (RA) overlap-associated interstitial pneumonia. We herein report a case in which the clinical behavior and histopathology of interstitial pneumonia with SSc-RA overlap syndrome was followed over a long clinical course. When clinicians are deciding on the treatment strategy for patients with SSc-RA overlap syndrome-associated interstitial pneumonia, a pathological examination of a surgical lung biopsy may be useful. PMID: 28626184 [PubMed - in process]
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