Abstracts tagged "Autoimmune diseases and interstitial lung disease"

Abstract Number: 1305 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Risk of Progression of Interstitial Lung Disease with Autoimmune Features to a Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease
Michail Alevizos and Elana J. Bernstein, Rheumatology, Columbia University, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Approximately 15-25% of patients diagnosed with idiopathic interstitial lung disease (ILD) have some features of autoimmunity, yet do not meet classification criteria for a…
Abstract Number: 1313 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Features and Timing of Studies in Interstitial Lung Disease with Autoimmune Disease Features: Do Autoantibody Panels Improve Diagnostic Yields and/or Increase Costs?
Josephine Wright¹, Dorota Odrobina², Mary Beth Scholand¹, Anne E. Tebo³ and Tracy M. Frech⁴, ¹Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: The entity of interstitial lung disease with autoimmune disease features (ILD-AF) is increasingly gaining traction as condition that is best co-managed by pulmonologists and…