Lung involvement associated with anti-NXP2 autoantibodies in inflammatory myopathies: a French monocenter series.

Conclusion: We observed that subclinical lung involvement is not rare in patients with IMM associated with positive anti-NXP2 Ab, with various radiological patterns and a significant lung function defect. Such data deserve to be known by the pulmonologist in order to perform a complete lung screening in all patients with positive anti-NXP2 antibody and to detect earlier a concomitant lung impairment. PMID: 32394768 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Expert Rev Respir Med Source Type: research