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3423699

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-2-25
pubmed:abstractText
In the course of an ample study of collagen diseases carried out in the "N. Gh. Lupu" Institute of Internal Medicine--Bucharest over a long period, a group of 608 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) hospitalized between 1974 and 1986 formed the object of the present study. Of these patients 18% presented pulmonary alterations due to SLE and 3.9% lung diseases of other etiology. The types of pulmonary involvement due to SLE were: pleurisy, interstitial pneumonia, diaphragmatic myopathy. Latent pulmonary damage could also be diagnosed in 8 patients. Most of the patients (94.1%) were females and had been hospitalized several times. Concomitantly with pulmonary damage other organ involvements have also been observed. Complex investigation of respiratory function performed in a selected group of patients revealed: restrictive syndrome, decrease of the gas transfer factor, increase of elastic recoil, hypoxemia on exercise. In most of the cases (92%) the pulmonary diseases had a chronic evolution. The treatment used was corticosteroids in 60% of the cases investigated.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0377-1202
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
227-32
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Pulmonary involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus.
pubmed:affiliation
N. Gh. Lupu Institute of Internal Medicine, Bucharest, Romania.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article