Evaluation of usefulness in surfactant protein D as a predictor of mortality in myositis-associated interstitial lung disease.

Evaluation of usefulness in surfactant protein D as a predictor of mortality in myositis-associated interstitial lung disease.

<h4>Objective</h4>Surfactant protein D (SP-D) is considered a serum biomarker of various forms of interstitial lung disease (ILD). In this study, we examined the utility of SP-D as a predictive biomarker for mortality in patients with ILD associated with polymyositis/dermatomyositis (PM/...

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Main Authors: Shinjiro Kaieda, Takahisa Gono, Kenichi Masui, Naoshi Nishina, Shinji Sato, Masataka Kuwana, A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort of Japanese Patients with Myositis-associated ILD (JAMI) investigators
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234523

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234523

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