The impact of coexisting connective tissue disease on survival in patients with fibrosing alveolitis

Rheumatology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 676-679

  Hubbard, R ^a,b   Venn, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connective tissue disease; Fibrosing alveolitis; General practice research database; Pulmonary fibrosis; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTICE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING HABIT; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0036276411     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/41.6.676     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Mortality rates from cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis in seven countries
2. Survival in patients with cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis: A population based cohort study
3. Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis: Clinical features and their influence on survival
4. Natural history and treated course of usual and desquamative interstitial pneumonia
5. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Clinical, histologic, radiographic, physiologic, scintigraphic, cytologic, and biochemical aspects
6. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Diagnosis and treatment
7. CT of interstitial lung disease: A diagnostic approach
8. Structural features of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis
9. A preliminary study of long-term treatment with interferon gamma-1b and low dose prednisolone in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
10. Azathioprine combined with prednisone in the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: A prospective double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial
11. Colchicine versus prednisone in the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
12. Fibrosing alveolitis associated with systemic sclerosis has a better prognosis than lone cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis
13. Interstitial pulmonary fibrosis with and without associated collagen vascular disease: Results of two year follow up
14. The UK General Practice Research Database
15. Lung cancer and cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis: A population based cohort study
16. The accuracy of the clinical diagnosis of new-onset idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and other interstitial lung disease: A prospective study
17. Determinants of survival in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
18. Lung disease in association with connective tissue diseases