Chronic Diffuse Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and rheumatoid arthritis.

“…Two of the eight patients reported by Stack and Grant (1965) developed malignant pulmonary tumours, and these have been reported by others (Aronoff and others, 1955;Cruickshank, 1959;Lee and Brain, 1962;Thompson and Leathart, 1965). We have not yet observed this in any of our patients.…”

"Unexplained" Dyspnoea and Shrinking Lungs in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

“…itself are often obscured by infection, heart failure, and uraemia. Pulmonary fibrosis, which is a prominent feature of scleroderma (Hughes and Lee, 1963) and occurs in rheumatoid arthritis (Lee and Brain, 1962), is rare in S.L.E. (Purnell et al, 1955).…”

Diffuse Fibrosing Alveolitis (Diffuse Interstitial Fibrosis of the Lungs): Two Cases with Autoimmune Features

“…cells (Braunsteiner, Egghart, and Potuzhek, 1960) or antinuclear factor. The rheumatoid factor, which is an auto-antibody to y-globulin, is often present with or without clinical evidence of rheumatoid arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis may supervene after the onset of diffuse fibrosing alveolitis (Lee and Brain, 1962); contrary to Scadding's approach (1960), we would not necessarily exclude cases from the group on the basis of their having rheumatoid arthritis or a positive serological test for rheumatoid factor. Erythrocyte autoantibodies, antithyro-globulin, and anticytoplasmic antibodies were demonstrable in our two index cases.…”