ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 666 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Seiji Segawa1, Daisuke Goto2, Masanobu Horikoshi2, Yuya Kondo3, Naoto Umeda2, Shinya Hagiwara2, Masahiro Yokosawa4, Tomoya Hirota3, Haruka Miki1, Hiroto Tsuboi3, Hiroshi Ogishima2, Takeshi Suzuki4, Isao Matsumoto5 and Takayuki Sumida3, 1Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, 2Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba City, Japan, 3Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, 4Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, 5Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Background/Purpose: Interstitial pneumonia (IP) is one of the critical complications in patients with several autoimmune diseases. However, the exact mechanism of IP remains elusive. Recently,…