The role of nailfold capillaroscopy in interstitial lung diseases - can it differentiate idiopathic cases from collagen tissue disease associated interstitial lung diseases?
TUBERKULOZ VE TORAK-TUBERCULOSIS AND THORAX, vol.63, no.1, pp.22-30, 2015 (ESCI, Scopus, TRDizin)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 63 Issue: 1
- Publication Date: 2015
- Doi Number: 10.5578/tt.8673
- Journal Name: TUBERKULOZ VE TORAK-TUBERCULOSIS AND THORAX
- Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Page Numbers: pp.22-30
- Keywords: Interstitial lung diseases, nailfold capillaroscopy, SYSTEMIC-SCLEROSIS, RHEUMATOID-ARTHRITIS, SJOGRENS-SYNDROME, ABNORMALITIES, PNEUMONIA, FIBROSIS, UPDATE
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
Introduction: Nailfold capillaroscopy (NFC) is a non-invasive diagnostic test that is mostly used for early diagnosis of collagen tissue diseases (CTDs). We aimed to evaluate whether NFC findings could be a clue for discriminating idiopathic interstitial lung diseases (ILD) from CTD associated ILDs (CTD-ILD). Additionally it was aimed to determine whether NFC could be helpful in discriminating usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern from non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) pattern.