Abstracts tagged "interstitial lung disease and Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies (IIM)"

Abstract Number: 406 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Myositis Related Antibodies and Interstitial Lung Disease: Variables Associated with Baseline Lung Function and Functional Improvement: Results from a Multicentric Latin-american Cohort
VERONICA WOLFF¹, MARIA LAURA ALBERTI ², FELIPE REYES ³, ERNESTO JUAREZ ⁴, JORGE ROJAS-SERRANO ⁴, FABIAN CARO ², IVETTE BUENDIA ⁴, MAYRA MEJIA ⁴, MATIAS FLORENZANO ⁵ and FRANCISCO PAULIN ², ¹INSTITUTO NACIONAL DEL TORAX - UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE, SANTIAGO, Chile, ²HOSPITAL MARIA FERRER, BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, ³HOSPITAL CLINICO UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE, SANTIAGO, Chile, ⁴INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES RESPIRATORIAS DE MEXICO DF, CIUDAD DE MEXICO, Mexico, ⁵INSTITUTO NACIONAL DEL TORAX, SANTIAGO, Chile
Background/Purpose: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) comprise a group of autoimmune diseases associated to different myositis related antibodies (MRA), that determine distinct phenotypes but share some…