Successful Treatment of Rapidly Progressive Unclassifiable Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia with Anti-melanoma Differentiation-associated Gene-5 Antibody by Intensive Immunosuppressive Therapy

We describe a case of a woman who presented with a persistent cough, general fatigue, and a fever. Interstitial lung disease was rapidly progressive and resistant to high-dose steroid therapy. She tested positive for the presence of anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (MDA-5) antibody, a...

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Autores principales: Koga, Takuma, Kaieda, Shinjiro, Okamoto, Masaki, Masuda, Ken, Fujimoto, Kyoko, Sakamoto, Satoshi, Nakamura, Masayuki, Tominaga, Masaki, Kawayama, Tomotaka, Fujimoto, Kiminori, Hoshino, Tomoaki, Ida, Hiroaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5919868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29269659
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.9553-17

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5919868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29269659
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.9553-17

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