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CLINICS IN CHEST MEDICINE
Volume 40, Issue 3, Pages 599-+Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2019.05.006
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Thoracic; Pulmonary; Respiratory; Ankylosing spondylitis; Inflammatory bowel disease; Relapsing polychondritis; Axial spondyloarthritis
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Ankylosing spondylitis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and relapsing polychondritis are immune-mediated inflammatory diseases with variable involvement of lungs, heart and the chest wall. Ankylosing spondylitis is associated with anterior chest wall pain, restrictive lung disease, obstructive sleep apnea, apical fibrosis, spontaneous pneumothorax, abnormalities of cardiac valves and conduction system, and aortitis. Patients with IBD can develop necrobiotic lung nodules that can be misdiagnosed as malignancy or infection. Relapsing polychondritis involves large airways in at least half of the patients. Relapsing polychondritis can mimic asthma in some patients. Medications used to treat these inflammatory conditions can cause pulmonary complications such as infections, pneumonitis, and rarely serositis.
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