PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - SAKETKOO, LESLEY ANN
AU  - MATTESON, ERIC L.
AU  - BROWN, KEVIN K.
AU  - SEIBOLD, JAMES R.
AU  - STRAND, VIBEKE
TI  - Developing Disease Activity and Response Criteria in Connective Tissue Disease-related Interstitial Lung Disease
AID  - 10.3899/jrheum.110281
DP  - 2011 Jul 01
TA  - The Journal of Rheumatology
PG  - 1514--1518
VI  - 38
IP  - 7
4099  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/38/7/1514.short
4100  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/38/7/1514.full
SO  - J Rheumatol2011 Jul 01; 38
AB  - The interstitial lung diseases (ILD) are a group of heterogeneous diseases that exert significant morbidity and mortality in connective tissue diseases (CTD). There is no consensus on measures of disease activity or therapeutic responsiveness, which hampers effective drug development and regulatory evaluation of candidate therapies. The CTD-ILD Special Interest Group represents an international multidisciplinary effort to identify consensus on criteria to measure disease activity and therapeutic response in CTD-ILD. We summarize the design of the studies we are conducting and progress leading to the OMERACT 10 and 2010 EULAR meetings.