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How do you treat CTD-associated organizing pneumonia?

How is your approach to treatment different than other ILD patterns such as NSIP? Does treatment response vary based on underlying CTD?
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Rheumatology · Northwestern Medical Group
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The approach to CTD-associated organizing pneumonia is similar to that of CTD-associated NSIP and involves treatment with glucocorticoids and steroid-sparing agents. The evidence for the choice of steroid-sparing agents is extrapolated from clinical trial and observational data from systemic scleros...

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Rheumatology · UConn Health
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I agree with what Dr. @Dr. First Last has said.

To answer your question specifically, organizing pneumonia is slightly different to other forms of ILD. OP tend to have much better response to steroids in general. As with most other ILD patterns, CTD-OP has slightly worse prognosis than COP. So I am ...

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