PMID- 28921478 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20201001 IS - 2110-5820 (Print) IS - 2110-5820 (Electronic) IS - 2110-5820 (Linking) VI - 7 IP - 1 DP - 2017 Sep 18 TI - Interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features: an additional risk factor for ARDS? PG - 98 LID - 10.1186/s13613-017-0320-3 [doi] LID - 98 AB - BACKGROUND: Interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features (IPAF) identifies a recently recognized autoimmune syndrome characterized by interstitial lung disease and autoantibodies positivity, but absence of a specific connective tissue disease diagnosis or alternative etiology. We retrospectively reviewed the clinical presentation, diagnostic workup and management of seven critically ill patients who met diagnostic criteria for IPAF. We compared baseline characteristics and clinical outcome of IPAF patients with those of the population of ARDS patients admitted in the same period. RESULTS: Seven consecutive patients with IPAF admitted to intensive care unit for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) were compared with 78 patients with ARDS secondary to a known risk factor and with eight ARDS patients without recognized risk factors. Five IPAF patients (71%) survived and were discharged alive from ICU: Their survival rate was equal to that of patients with a known risk factor (71%), while the subgroup of patients without risk factors had a markedly lower survival (38%). According to the Berlin definition criteria, ARDS was severe in four IPAF patients and moderate in the remaining three. All had multiple organ dysfunction at presentation. The most frequent autoantibody detected was anti-SSA/Ro52. All patients required prolonged mechanical ventilation (median duration 49 days, range 10-88); four received extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and one received low-flow extracorporeal CO(2) removal. All patients received immunosuppressive therapy. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first description of a cohort of critical patients meeting the diagnostic criteria for IPAF presenting with ARDS. This diagnosis should be considered in any critically ill patient with interstitial lung disease of unknown origin. While management is challenging and level of support high, survival appears to be good and comparable to that of patients with ARDS associated with a known clinical insult. FAU - Grasselli, Giacomo AU - Grasselli G AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1735-1400 AD - Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione ed Emergenza-Urgenza, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via Francesco Sforza 35, 20122, Milan, Italy. giacomo.grasselli@unimi.it. FAU - Vergnano, Beatrice AU - Vergnano B AD - Dipartimento di Emergenza-Urgenza, Ospedale San Gerardo, Monza, Italy. FAU - Pozzi, Maria Rosa AU - Pozzi MR AD - Dipartimento di Medicina, Unita Operativa di Reumatologia, Ospedale San Gerardo, Monza, Italy. FAU - Sala, Vittoria AU - Sala V AD - Dipartimento di Emergenza-Urgenza, Ospedale San Gerardo, Monza, Italy. FAU - D'Andrea, Gabriele AU - D'Andrea G AD - Unita Operativa di Radiodiagnostica, Ospedale San Gerardo, Monza, Italy. FAU - Scaravilli, Vittorio AU - Scaravilli V AD - Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione ed Emergenza-Urgenza, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via Francesco Sforza 35, 20122, Milan, Italy. FAU - Mantero, Marco AU - Mantero M AD - Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Medico Chirurgica e dei Trapianti, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy. FAU - Pesci, Alberto AU - Pesci A AD - Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Universita Milano Bicocca, Monza, Italy. AD - Clinica Pneumologica, Ospedale San Gerardo, Monza, Italy. FAU - Pesenti, Antonio AU - Pesenti A AD - Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione ed Emergenza-Urgenza, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via Francesco Sforza 35, 20122, Milan, Italy. AD - Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Medico Chirurgica e dei Trapianti, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20170918 PL - Germany TA - Ann Intensive Care JT - Annals of intensive care JID - 101562873 PMC - PMC5603462 OTO - NOTNLM OT - ARDS OT - ECMO OT - Interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features OT - Lung-dominant connective tissue disease EDAT- 2017/09/19 06:00 MHDA- 2017/09/19 06:01 PMCR- 2017/09/18 CRDT- 2017/09/19 06:00 PHST- 2017/04/20 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/09/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/09/19 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2017/09/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/09/19 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2017/09/18 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1186/s13613-017-0320-3 [pii] AID - 320 [pii] AID - 10.1186/s13613-017-0320-3 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Ann Intensive Care. 2017 Sep 18;7(1):98. doi: 10.1186/s13613-017-0320-3.