2017
DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2017.02.48
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Serum KL-6 and surfactant protein-D as monitoring and predictive markers of interstitial lung disease in patients with systemic sclerosis and mixed connective tissue disease

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“…Although the serum level of SP‐D was a strong predictor of lung fibrosis at baseline, in longitudinal analyses, SP‐D was not predictive of lung fibrosis worsening in most of the analyses. These results are not consistent with those of previous studies , but those earlier studies were small‐sized, diagnosed lung fibrosis by radiography rather than HRCT, included both mixed connective tissue diseases and SSc, and did not perform multivariate analyses.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 97%
“…Although the serum level of SP‐D was a strong predictor of lung fibrosis at baseline, in longitudinal analyses, SP‐D was not predictive of lung fibrosis worsening in most of the analyses. These results are not consistent with those of previous studies , but those earlier studies were small‐sized, diagnosed lung fibrosis by radiography rather than HRCT, included both mixed connective tissue diseases and SSc, and did not perform multivariate analyses.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 97%
“…Furthermore, the higher levels of BAFF paralleled the higher concentrations of KL‐6 (Fig. b), which has been used as a surrogate marker for evaluation of ILD disease severity . These relationships were not found in those cases whose plasma IFN‐α levels were lower than the cut‐off.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…In the group of mild lung injury patients, who were with shorter disease course, the predictive effect of KL‐6 on the progression of ILD was more pronounced. Yamakawa et al demonstrated that there was a significant correlation between the changes in serum levels of KL‐6 and the changes in FVC at a median follow‐up interval of 1.9 years in a small size of patients with SSc/mixed connective tissue disease‐associated ILD. Unfortunately, although we found there was a lower degree of correlation between the changes of KL‐6 levels and the changes of TLC% during the follow‐up of 2 years, we did not confirm the relationship between changes in KL‐6 levels and alterations in FVC% and DLCO%.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In fact, as early as 2000, Kenichi Yamane et al found serum levels of Krebs von den Lungen‐6 (KL‐6), a kind of salivary liquefied glycoprotein mainly expressed on the surface of type II alveolar epithelial cells, correlated with SSc‐associated ILD (SSc‐ILD) . The associations between serum KL‐6 and the activity and severity of SSc‐ILD had been explored in some previous studies . In recent years, the value of serum KL‐6 for predicting onset and prognosis of SSc‐ILD has drawn more and more attention.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%