Acute- or subacute-onset lung complications in treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common systemic disease that manifests as inflammatory arthritis of multiple joints and produces a wide variety of intrathoracic lesions, including pleural diseases, diffuse interstitial pneumonia, rheumatoid nodules, and airway disease. Patients treated for RA can have associated lung disease that commonly manifests as diffuse interstitial pneumonia, drug-induced lung injury, and infection. The purpose of this pictorial review is to illustrate the radiographic and clinical features of lung complications of acute or subacute onset in patients treated for RA and to show the computed tomography features of these complications.
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Saitama Medical University, Saitama International Medical Center, Saitama, Japan. s_reiko@saitama-med.ac.jp
Reiko
R
Nakajima
Fumikazu
F
Sakai
Toshihide
T
Mimura
Hitoshi
H
Tokuda
Masahiro
M
Takahashi
Fumiko
F
Kimura
D000208:Acute Disease; D018501:Antirheumatic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D018549:Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D055370:Lung Injury / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
D018501:Antirheumatic Agents