La Revue de médecine interne
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Case Reports
[Acute respiratory distress syndrome as the presenting manifestation of an antisynthetase syndrome].
The antisynthetase syndrome is a subgroup of idiopathic inflammatory muscle diseases. Its characteristics are interstitial lung disease, myositis, polyarthritis, mechanic's hand like cutaneous involvement, and the presence of antisynthetase antibodies (anti-Jo1). ⋯ This patient was already followed-up for a scleroderma and presented a probable overlap syndrome. The disease course was favourable with anti-CD20 therapy.