PMID- 37701997 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20231023 LR - 20231024 IS - 1099-0496 (Electronic) IS - 1099-0496 (Linking) VI - 58 IP - 11 DP - 2023 Nov TI - Unclassifiable interstitial lung disease and autoimmunity: Towards IPAF in children? PG - 3303-3313 LID - 10.1002/ppul.26660 [doi] AB - INTRODUCTION: Interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features (IPAF) has been defined for adults with interstitial lung disease (ILD) and autoimmunity who do not meet the criteria for a specific connective tissue disease (CTD). We aimed to determine whether IPAF criteria could apply to children. METHODS: We retrospectively studied patients with ILD and autoimmunity followed at Necker Hospital between 2008 and 2019. Children were classified according to specific CTD and IPAF criteria. The epidemiology and course of the disease were studied according to the final diagnosis. RESULTS: Among 27 patients, 6 fulfilled the criteria for IPAF and represented 4.5% of all patients with ILD during the study period. Other diagnoses included juvenile dermatomyositis (30%), overlap syndromes (19%), systemic lupus erythematosus (15%), systemic sclerosis (7%), mixed CTD (4%), and rheumatoid arthritis (4%). IPAF patients were more frequently boys versus CTD-ILD patients (67% vs. 14%, p = .02). Two patients had severe respiratory distress that led to death for one of them. The course was favorable for the others, with a good response to steroids. The course tended to be more favorable for IPAF patients than for those with CTD-ILD (0% lung fibrosis in the IPAF group vs. 43% in the CTD-ILD group, p = .07). CONCLUSION: We confirmed the existence of IPAF in children. Its prevalence was lower than in adults but comparable to that found for other pediatric series. Boys were more highly represented than in CTD-ILD. The course was favorable for most cases. Larger and more prospective studies are needed to confirm these results. CI - (c) 2023 Wiley Periodicals LLC. FAU - Aoust, Laura AU - Aoust L AD - AP-HP, Hopital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Service de Pneumologie Pediatrique, Centre de Reference pour les Maladies Respiratoires Rares de l'Enfant, Paris, France. FAU - Berteloot, Laureline AU - Berteloot L AD - Institut Imagine, INSERM UMRS 1163, Paris, France. AD - AP-HP, Service d'Imagerie Pediatrique, Hopital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France. FAU - Drabent, Philippe AU - Drabent P AD - AP-HP, Hopitaux Universitaires Necker-Enfants Malades et Robert Debre, Service d'Anatomie Pathologique, Paris, France. FAU - Garcelon, Nicolas AU - Garcelon N AD - Imagine Institute, Data Science Platform, INSERM UMR 1163, Universite de Paris, Paris, France. FAU - Bodemer, Christine AU - Bodemer C AD - APHP, Hopital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Service de Dermatologie Pediatrique, Paris, France. AD - Universite Paris Cite, Paris, France. FAU - Molina, Thierry Jo AU - Molina TJ AD - Institut Imagine, INSERM UMRS 1163, Paris, France. AD - AP-HP, Hopitaux Universitaires Necker-Enfants Malades et Robert Debre, Service d'Anatomie Pathologique, Paris, France. AD - Universite Paris Cite, Paris, France. FAU - Bader-Meunier, Brigitte AU - Bader-Meunier B AD - APHP, Hopital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Service d'Immunologie et Rhumatologie Pediatriques, Paris, France. AD - Center for Rheumatic, AutoImmune and Systemic Diseases in Children (RAISE), Paris Cite University, Paris, France. AD - Laboratory of Immunogenetics of Paediatric Autoimmunity, Imagine Institute, INSERM U1163, Paris Cite University, Paris, France. FAU - Hadchouel, Alice AU - Hadchouel A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7451-9890 AD - AP-HP, Hopital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Service de Pneumologie Pediatrique, Centre de Reference pour les Maladies Respiratoires Rares de l'Enfant, Paris, France. AD - Universite Paris Cite, Paris, France. AD - INSERM U1151, Institut Necker Enfants Malades, Paris, France. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230913 PL - United States TA - Pediatr Pulmonol JT - Pediatric pulmonology JID - 8510590 SB - IM MH - Male MH - Humans MH - Child MH - Autoimmunity MH - Retrospective Studies MH - *Lung Diseases, Interstitial/epidemiology/diagnosis MH - *Connective Tissue Diseases/complications/epidemiology/diagnosis MH - *Autoimmune Diseases/complications/epidemiology OTO - NOTNLM OT - autoimmunity OT - children OT - connective tissue disease OT - intersitial lung disease EDAT- 2023/09/13 06:41 MHDA- 2023/10/23 00:42 CRDT- 2023/09/13 04:23 PHST- 2023/07/14 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/01/04 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/08/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/10/23 00:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/09/13 06:41 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/09/13 04:23 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/ppul.26660 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Pediatr Pulmonol. 2023 Nov;58(11):3303-3313. doi: 10.1002/ppul.26660. Epub 2023 Sep 13.