Abstracts tagged "inflammation and interstitial lung disease"

Abstract Number: 3177 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Targeted Nuclear Imaging for the Early Detection of Lung Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis
Janine Schniering¹, Stephanie Haller², Zhongning Guo¹, Martina Benesova^2,3, Carol A. Feghali-Bostwick⁴, Roger Schibli^2,3, Oliver Distler⁵, Cristina Müller^2,3 and Britta Maurer⁵, ¹Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland, ²Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences ETH-PSI-USZ, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland, ³Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁴Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is one of the main causes of systemic sclerosis (SSc)-related deaths. Since routine diagnostics such as high resolution computed tomography…