Article
Risk factors for pulmonary interstitial fibrosis in patients with systemic sclerosis
2020-09-16
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background: </h4> Pulmonary interstitial fibrosis (PIF) is a frequent manifestation of systemic sclerosis (SSc). However, there is a lack of good clinical indicators for predicting PIF. Here, we evaluated autoantibodies and clinical phenotypes to predict the involvement of PIF in SSc. Methods Peripheral blood was collected from the 86 SSc patients enrolled in this study to detect autoantibodies. PIF, lung fun...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 68a722a3-da51-5473-9735-2db4c6ad9d75
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-69236/v1
