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Pulmonary Involvement in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, by Andrea Doria, Paolo Pauletto, Ronald Asherson

By Andrea Doria, Paolo Pauletto, Ronald Asherson

During this ebook is located the knowledge necessary to diagnosing, coping with and treating the lung issues of connective tissue ailments. this can be a notoriously tough sector, which maintains to puzzle clinicians, even though those issues are more and more widespread (as because of the longer survival in connective tissue disease). In separate chapters, the most important connective tissue ailments are reviewed, with distinctive dialogue of numerous lung abnormalities, together with pleural ailment, parenchymal lung disorder and pulmonary vascular illness. There also are useful overviews of lung histological and CT appearances in those problems, and a deeply insightful bankruptcy on drug-induced lung illness in connective tissue sickness. The emphasis during this e-book is on accuracy of evaluate and the development of a logical administration plan, in line with sickness severity and intrinsic progressiveness.

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2001). No correlation with cumulative dose has been reported. The mechanism of methotrexate-induced lung injury is unknown. , 2000). The manifestations of pulmonary toxicity are better visualized on HRCT than on a chest radiograph. , 2000). Interstitial pneumonitis and fibrosis result in ground-glass and irregular opacities that tend to involve the basal lung zones. A hypersensitivity reaction to methotrexate can result in extensive bilateral air-space consolidation. Acute respiratory distress syndrome and an organizing pneumonia-like reaction can also result in subpleural areas of consolidation.

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