Interstitial lung disease (ILD) causes significant morbidity and mortality in patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases. Patients at high risk of ILD should be screened using ...

Tu, H. and Huang, Y.Y. (2026) Progress in Quantitative Imaging Assessment of Dermatomyositis-Associated Interstitial Lung ...

Research suggests that it is important for clinicians to identify the risk for ILD in patients with SSc so that therapy can be initiated.

EULAR—The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology—has worked with the European Respiratory Society (ERS) to develop new clinical practice guidelines for interstitial lung disease (ILD) ...

The prevalence of interstitial lung disease (ILD) across connective tissue disorders (CTDs) and its persistent standing as a leading cause of death in patients with CTDs challenge rheumatologists to ...

Lung ultrasound is effective for detecting ILD in RA patients, with high sensitivity and moderate specificity. B-lines are a primary criterion for ILD diagnosis in LUS, indicating pulmonary ...

On HRCT, a UIP pattern is characterized by the following features: 1) subpleural, basal predominance, 2) reticular abnormality, and 3) honeycombing. Typically, honeycombing occurs as clustered air ...

As a pulmonologist, Chao He has witnessed the long road that many people have to take on their way to a diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). IPF causes progressive scarring of the lungs ...

CTD is a diverse group of disorders that includes systemic sclerosis (SSc), idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM), Sjögren disease (SjD), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and mixed CTD (MCTD).

EULAR - The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology - has worked with the European Respiratory Society (ERS) to develop new clinical practice guidelines for interstitial lung disease (ILD) ...