Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) often present with the respiratory symptoms that indicate to pulmonary disease. It has been found that many drugs used in the treatment of RA can induce such diseases. The article presents an overview of such cases. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic disease that commonly affects the joints causing progressive, erosive and symmetric erosion of cartilage and bones involved in autoantibody production.
Although RA shows joint erosion as the main manifestation, it also presents extra-articular manifestations such as inflammatory eye disease, subcutaneous nodule formation and lung disease. Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a common extra-articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. It has been found that some of the conventional disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs may trigger or…
