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  • BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has reach pandemic proportions globally. For patients with symptoms of fever and cough accompanied by rapid lung damage progression, COVID-19 needs to be distinguished from interstitial lung disease (ILD) attributed to connective tissue disease (CTD), especially dermatomyositis (DM)/clinical amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM) associated rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease (RP-ILD). CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a woman observed with fever, cough, and rapid lung damage during the epidemic. The patient had a suspicious epidemiological history, and her chest CT scans showed lung damage similar to that caused by COVID-19, but anti-Ro52 antibody was strongly positive. She was diagnosed with CADM associated RP-ILD and died 1 month later. CONCLUSIONS: During the COVID-19 epidemic, it is critical to carefully assess patients with CTD related ILD, especially RP-ILD associated with CADM. Repeated nucleic acid tests for COVID-19 are necessary to achieve accurate case diagnosis. High-resolution CT (HRCT) of the chest is presently deemed an inefficient technique to distinguishing between COVID-19 and CADM associated RP-ILD. The characteristic rashes of dermatomyositis require careful observation and can often provide diagnostic clues. For patients with CADM, a high titers of anti-Ro52 antibody may be related to the pathogenesis of RP-ILD, suggesting a poor prognosis.
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  • 10.1186/s12890-020-01335-z
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  • BMC_Pulm_Med
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  • cc-by
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  • document_parses/pdf_json/8458d3821c2485cb880f17cd66824c6aa1731d41.json
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  • document_parses/pmc_json/PMC7675391.xml.json
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  • 33213393.0
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  • Medline; PMC
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  • COVID-19 or clinical amyopathic dermatomyositis associated rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease? A case report
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?:year
  • 2020-11-19

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