Significance of pulmonary arterial pressure as a prognostic indicator in lung-dominant connective tissue disease.

BACKGROUND: Lung-dominant connective tissue disease (LD-CTD) is a new concept for classifying the subset of patients with interstitial pneumonia who have clinical features suggesting an associated CTD, but whose features fall short of a clear diagnosis of CTD under the current rheumatologic classifi...

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Main Authors: Atsushi Suzuki, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Naohiro Watanabe, Yasuhiro Kondoh, Tomoki Kimura, Kensuke Kataoka, Toshiaki Matsuda, Toshiki Yokoyama, Koji Sakamoto, Osamu Nishiyama, Yoshinori Hasegawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4182458?pdf=render