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In the Lungs: Asthma & COPD May Be Early, Independent Risk Factors for RA

June 1, 2020 • By Carina Stanton

Recent research found women with COPD and asthma—even those who have never smoked—are at a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis…... [Read More]

What Our Colleagues Should Know: Integrated Care for the Lungs

February 17, 2017 • By Richard Quinn

Multi-system diseases have unique challenges. And Dr. Aryeh Fischer says that when treating patients with interstitial lung disease, pulmonologists and rheumatologists must better understand “how we [both] approach our shared diseases.”... [Read More]

What Listening to Lungs Might Teach About Rheumatic Disease

February 17, 2016 • By Simon M. Helfgott, MD

One of your first clinical assignments as a medical student was likely to have been the lung exam. Its key descriptors may still resonate in your mind: inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation. Proudly parading down the hospital corridors, your newly purchased stethoscope snugly tucked inside your lab coat pocket, you carefully place its cold metal… [Read More]

Listen to the Lungs: An Interview with Dr. Aryeh Fischer on ILD

January 29, 2016 • By Richard Quinn

In a recent interview, Aryeh Fischer, MD, addresses the importance of checking patients with autoimmune diseases for interstitial lung disease, noting that advances in technology and awareness can lead to early detection and affect patient outcomes…... [Read More]

ACPA-Positive & ACPA-Negative Patients with RA: The Difference Begins in the Lungs

January 4, 2016 • By Lara C. Pullen, PhD

A new study from Stockholm, Sweden, strengthens the link between the lungs and anti-citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA)–positive RA. After analyzing the bronchial tissue of untreated patients with early RA, researchers found the patients’ lungs had signs of immune cell accumulation and activation…... [Read More]

Lungs Are Particularly Vulnerable in Patients with Systemic Rheumatic Disease

June 29, 2015 • By Lara C. Pullen, PhD

In an observational study, physicians found that systemic rheumatic disease exacerbation and treatment-related infections were often related to the lungs…... [Read More]

A Primer on Imaging in Myositis

November 9, 2022 • By Rochelle Castillo, MD, MS, Andro Licaros, MD, & Jemima Albayda, MD

In medicine, as in advertising, pictures can be worth a thousand words. From arthritis to vasculitis, imaging studies have been variably employed to aid in the diagnosis, treatment, risk stratification and prognostication of patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal disorders. The same holds true with the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM), in which the clinical utility is… [Read More]

Case Report: Sweet Syndrome as an Initial Presentation of Crohn’s Disease

July 13, 2022 • By Ryan Guerrettaz, MD, Angelo Ciliberti, MD, Rochella Ostrowski, MD, Elise Wolff, DO, Nadia Qureshi, MD, & Ramzan Shahid, MD

Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, or Sweet syndrome, is an inflammatory disease that classically presents with fever, leukocytosis and tender, erythematous plaques characterized by neutrophilic infiltrates on biopsy. Sweet syndrome has been reported in association with several autoimmune diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, systemic lupus erythematous, rheumatoid arthritis and sarcoidosis.1 Here, we discuss a case of… [Read More]

Pearls of Wisdom from an Expert: Challenging ILD Cases with a Pulmonologist-Rheumatologist

June 17, 2022 • By Samantha C. Shapiro, MD

Erin Wilfong, MD, PhD, shared her niche expertise in connective tissue disease ILD (CTD-ILD) via case-based learning during a session of the 2022 ACR Education Exchange.... [Read More]

Tips from a Cardiothoracic Radiologist: Interstitial Lung Disease & Radiology for the Rheumatologist