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Review
. 2016 Jul;25(8):925-33.
doi: 10.1177/0961203316651748.

Clinical significance and new detection system of autoantibodies in myositis with interstitial lung disease

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Clinical significance and new detection system of autoantibodies in myositis with interstitial lung disease

R Nakashima et al. Lupus. 2016 Jul.

Abstract

Anti-aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (ARS) and anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (MDA5) antibodies are closely associated with interstitial lung disease in polymyositis and dermatomyositis. Anti-ARS-positive patients develop common clinical characteristics termed anti-synthetase syndrome and share a common clinical course, in which they respond well to initial treatment with glucocorticoids but in which disease tends to recur when glucocorticoids are tapered. Anti-MDA5 antibody is associated with rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease and poor prognosis, particularly in Asia. Therefore, intensive immunosuppressive therapy is required for anti-MDA5-positive patients from the early phase of the disease. New enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays to detect anti-ARS and anti-MDA5 antibodies have recently been established and are suggested to be efficient and useful. These assays are expected to be widely applied in daily practice.

Keywords: Polymyositis; anti-MDA5 antibody; anti-aminoacyl tRNA synthetase antibody; anti-synthetase syndrome; clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis; dermatomyositis; enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; ferritin; high resolution computed tomography; interstitial lung disease.

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