TABLE 1.

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PLEUROPARENCHYMAL COMPLICATIONS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

Pleural disease

Pleural effusions

Pleural fibrosis

Airway disease

Cricoarytenoid arthritis

Bronchiectasis

Follicular bronchiolitis

Bronchiolitis obliterans

Diffuse panbronchiolitis

Interstitial lung disease

Usual interstitial pneumonia

Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia

Organizing pneumonia

Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia

Diffuse alveolar damage

Acute eosinophilic pneumonia

Apical fibrobullous disease

Amyloid

Rheumatoid nodules

Pulmonary vascular disease

Pulmonary hypertension

Vasculitis

Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage with capillaritis

Secondary pulmonary complications

Opportunistic infections

Pulmonary tuberculosis

Atypical mycobacterial infections

Nocardiosis

Aspergillosis

Pneumocystis jeroveci pneumonia

Cytomegalovirus pneumonitis

Drug toxicity

Methotrexate

Gold

d-penicillamine

Sulfasalazine