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In a patient with low titer +anti-SAE antibody and known ILD, but no other clinical features of dermatomyositis, how would you approach further testing or would you treat the patient as dermatomyositis associated ILD?

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Rheumatology · University of Washington

When someone with ILD has an isolated biomarker without other clinical features associated with that biomarker, I have to ask myself these questions: first, is the biomarker simply a false positive because I have tested a plethora of biomarkers and second, is ILD the initial or only manifestation as...

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