Lung involvement associated with anti-NXP2 autoantibodies in inflammatory myopathies: a French monocenter series.
Julien BermudezXavier HeimDaniel BertinBenjamin CoulonBasile PuechNathalie BardinMartine Reynaud-GaubertPublished in: Expert review of respiratory medicine (2020)
We observed that subclinical lung involvement is not rare in patients with IM associated with positive anti-NXP2 Ab, with various radiological patterns and a significant lung function defect. Such data deserve to be known by the pulmonologist in order to perform a complete lung screening in all patients with positive anti-NXP2 antibody and to detect earlier a concomitant lung impairment.