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5. All of the above
In order to determine if his increasing shortness of breath is secondary is secondary to progression of his interstitial lung disease it will be necessary to obtain his baseline data and compare it with his current data.
His pulmonary function testing is shown in figure 1 and his CT scans are shown in figure 2.
Figure 1. Pulmonary function tests from 2011 and 2018.
Figure 2. representative images from thoracic CT scan in 2011 and 2018.
His lung biopsy was requested and mailed, however, only the report was available at that time. The report read “nonspecific interstitial pneumonia pattern with mild interstitial inflammation accompanied by fibrosis. Differential diagnosis would include drug reaction, systemic autoimmune disease or idiopathic nonspecific interstitial pneumonia.”
Rheumatological work up including rheumatoid factor, anti-nuclear antibody, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, anticitrulline antibody, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies, antiglomerular basement membrane were all negative.
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