Rebuttal From Drs Oldham and Danoff

[摘要] We agree with Drs Lee and Fischer that patients like the one described in their vignette¹ have sufficient features to warrant a provisional diagnosis of unclassified connective tissue disease (CTD)-interstitial lung disease (ILD), an entity now widely referred to as interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features (IPAF). In that respect, the IPAF research statement² has accomplished one of its primary goals, which was to provide a single nomenclature for such patients. Unfortunately, these criteria have resulted in the lumping of patients with likely unrelated disorders into a single group.

[学科分类] 呼吸医学