Lung complications occur in all rheumatological disorders, but their frequency and type vary strikingly between different systemic diseases. Greater routine use of high-resolution CT and echocardiography means that interstitial lung disease and pulmonary vascular disease are increasingly recognized, which can create clinical difficulty in distinguishing between subclinical involvement and significant disease....
Treatment of Scleroderma-Interstitial Lung Disease With Cyclophosphamide Is Associated With Less Progressive Fibrosis on Serial Thoracic High-Resolution CT Scan Than Placebo