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connective tissue disease; soft tissue disease
Clinical manifestations:
- lung
- pleuritis
- pneumonitis
- pulmonary hemorrhage from vasculitis (hemoptysis)
- patients typically present with dyspnea [3]
- kidney
- glomerulonephritis, hematuria
- peripheral neuropathy, mononeuritis multiplex [3]
Specific
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
General
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: 21050950
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 17, 18,
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2015, 2018