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Treatment Options for Rheumatoid Fibrosing Alveolitis

Posted 05/02/2008

Question

What are the treatment options for rheumatoid fibrosing alveolitis?

Response from I. Fox, MD, PhD

Professor/Member, Scripps Memorial Hospital and Research Foundation;

Rheumatologist, Scripps Memorial Hospital, LaJolla, California

Response

Optimal therapy for fibrosing alveolitis (part of the spectrum of

interstitial lung disease [iLD]) has not been clearly established. To

date, most treatment strategies have been based on eliminating or

suppressing the inflammatory component. No pharmacologic therapy has

been shown to unequivocally alter or reverse the inflammatory process

of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). It has been suggested that ILD

in association with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is less severe or

progressive than idiopathic ILD.

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http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/572299

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