Pulmonary Involvement in Miscellaneous Connective Tissue Diseases

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses pulmonary involvement in miscellaneous connective tissue diseases. It covers the lung manifestations of a number disorders: mixed disease (MCTD), relapsing polychondritis (with exception associated vasculitis), ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and Marfan syndrome (MS). These conditions have common fact that is well recognized, may be life threatening, but infrequently encountered routine clinical practice, either because systemic disorder rare (especially polychondritis), or occurs infrequently. The illustrates that: should characterized as most closely resembling SLE, SSc PM DM, this approach gives best guide to prognosis treatment; interstitial frequent complication has highly variable prognosis; vascular less not uncommon, often lethal.