TY - JOUR
T1 - A 43-year-old man with antisynthetase syndrome presenting with acute worsening of dyspnea
AU - Kulkarni, Hrishikesh S.
AU - Gutierrez, Fernando R.
AU - Despotovic, Vladimir
AU - Russell, Tonya D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CHEST PHYSICIANS.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - A 43-year-old man with antisynthetase syndrome was seen in our pulmonary clinic for worsening dyspnea. He was recently diagnosed with antisynthetase syndrome because he had nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis on a surgical lung biopsy and polymyositis associated with anti-Jo-1 and anti-SSA-52 autoantibodies. Along with his worsening dyspnea, he also had a dry cough, lower extremity edema, and abdominal distension. He had gained 11 kg over 1 month. He had been taking prednisone 40 mg daily 2 months prior, which had been recently weaned to 20 mg daily. He had also been on mycophenolate mofetil but had recently discontinued it on his own.
AB - A 43-year-old man with antisynthetase syndrome was seen in our pulmonary clinic for worsening dyspnea. He was recently diagnosed with antisynthetase syndrome because he had nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis on a surgical lung biopsy and polymyositis associated with anti-Jo-1 and anti-SSA-52 autoantibodies. Along with his worsening dyspnea, he also had a dry cough, lower extremity edema, and abdominal distension. He had gained 11 kg over 1 month. He had been taking prednisone 40 mg daily 2 months prior, which had been recently weaned to 20 mg daily. He had also been on mycophenolate mofetil but had recently discontinued it on his own.
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U2 - 10.1378/chest.14-2402
DO - 10.1378/chest.14-2402
M3 - Article
C2 - 26033135
AN - SCOPUS:84930915694
SN - 0012-3692
VL - 147
SP - e215-e219
JO - CHEST
JF - CHEST
IS - 6
ER -