Don't wait for pulmonary symptoms to suspect ILD in your patients with CTD

Did you know that interstitial lung disease (ILD) develops in up to 30% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)?1‐5

Discover how to screen for ILD in RA

SUSPECT PULMONARY FIBROSIS

You may see patients with connective tissue disorders (CTDs) who develop ILD, including pulmonary fibrosis. Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a common early manifestation of CTDs which shares common pathogenic pathways to fibrogenesis.6–12

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DISCOVER HOW AND WHY IDENTIFYING FIBROTIC CTD-ILDs MATTERS

IMAGING ATLAS OF ILDs

Improve your ability to diagnose fibrotic ILDs.

This atlas can assist you through the process of diagnosing an ILD, helping you recognize key clues and characteristics on chest HRCT and histopathology cuts from surgical lung biopsy.

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4 imagining scans, representing fibrotic ILDs and characteristic for them lung pathologies.
Footnotes
  • CTD, connective tissue disease; CTD-ILD, connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease; HRCT, high-resolution computed tomography; ILD, interstitial lung disease; RA, rheumatoid arthritis; RA-ILD, rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease; SSc, systemic sclerosis; SSc-ILD, systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease.

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