Bmc pulmonary medicine assessment of cardiopulmonary manifestations and its correlation with semiquantitative scoring of high-resolution computed tomography in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases

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• who: Mai M. El-Kalashy et al. from the This prospective study was conducted on , patients (mean age , u00b1years), diagnosed with ARD, attending Menoufia University Hospitals from the period of January , to March, . All of the patients met the diagnostic criteria of the American College of Rheumatology that including RA [15], SSc [16], and SLE [17], and their age was > , years old. Exclusion criteria were any patient with chronic pulmonary, or cardiac disease, lung cancer history, a known cause of interstitial lung fibrosis e_g, occupational, age less than , years old, patients, who couldn`t perform spirometry, or . . .
  

   

  

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