The clinical characteristic and prognosis of interstitial lung disease associated with polymyositis and dermatemyositis / 中华风湿病学杂志
Chinese Journal of Rheumatology
;
(12): 554-556, 2009.
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in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-393491
ABSTRACT
Objective To study the clinical characteristics and prognosis of interstitial lung disease (ILD) associated with polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM). Methods The clinical data of 107 DM related ILD,and its frequency rate was 26.2%. Arthritis as the first symptom had a higher presenting rate in patients with ILD than in patients with non- ILD. Arthritis, dry cough and short of breath occurred more dyspnea presented in patients with DM-ILD, and there was serious myalgia and muscle weakness in patients More DM-ILD patients had high HBDH and AST than those in PM-ILD. High CK and CK-MB were more The 7 of 8 severe cases had DM-ILD in which 5 died of respiratory failure (death rate was 17.9% in PM/elevated ESR and CRP tend to complicate with ILD. The DM patients who have characteristic skin rashes and high AST level are prone to develop ILD. The PM patients who have high CK and CK-MB are susceptible to
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Type of study:
Prognostic study
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Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Journal of Rheumatology
Year:
2009
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