connective tissue disease; soft tissue disease
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Clinical manifestations
- lung
- pleuritis
- pneumonitis
- pulmonary hemorrhage from vasculitis (hemoptysis)
- patients typically present with dyspnea[3]
- kidney
- peripheral neuropathy, mononeuritis multiplex[3]
Complications
More general terms
More specific terms
- dermatomyositis
- fibrillinopathy
- fibrosclerosis
- genetic disease of connective tissue
- mixed connective tissue disease; Sharp's syndrome (MCTD)
- osteogenesis imperfecta; osteopsathyrosis; fragilitas ossium; Lobstein's disease (OI)
- overlap connective tissue disease (MASS syndrome)
- relapsing polychondritis
- rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
- rheumatologic disease
- Sjogren's syndrome (autoimmune epitheliitis)
- soft (connective) tissue neoplasm
- soft tissue infection
- stiff skin syndrome
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- systemic sclerosis
- undifferentiated connective tissue disease
References
- ↑ ARUP Consult: Connective Tissue Diseases The Physician's Guide to Laboratory Test Selection & Interpretation https://www.arupconsult.com/content/connective-tissue-diseases
- ↑ Waits JB. Rational use of laboratory testing in the initial evaluation of soft tissue and joint complaints. Prim Care. 2010 Dec;37(4):673-89, PMID: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21050950
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 17, 18, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2015, 2018