Systemic sclerosis (SS) in its final stages often produces a restrictive lung disease similar to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

 

Further Reading

Systemic sclerosis/scleroderma: A treatable multisystem disease.  Am Fam Physician 2008;78(8):961-968.

Interstitial lung disease associated with systemic sclerosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: How similar and distinct? Arthritis Rheumatol 2014;66(8):1967-1978.

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