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Preliminary Study on Acupuncture Combined with Grain-sized Moxibustion for Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis with Finger Joint Pain
Published on: May 16, 2025
Acute- or subacute-onset lung complications in treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Reiko Nakajima1, Fumikazu Sakai, Toshihide Mimura
1Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Saitama Medical University, Saitama International Medical Center, Saitama, Japan. s_reiko@saitama-med.ac.jp
Abstract:
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common systemic disease that manifests as inflammatory arthritis of multiple joints and produces a wide variety of intrathoracic lesions, including pleural diseases, diffuse interstitial pneumonia, rheumatoid nodules, and airway disease. Patients treated for RA can have associated lung disease that commonly manifests as diffuse interstitial pneumonia, drug-induced lung injury, and infection. The purpose of this pictorial review is to illustrate the radiographic and clinical features of lung complications of acute or subacute onset in patients treated for RA and to show the computed tomography features of these complications.
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