Patients with certain inflammatory myopathies are at risk of developing severe interstitial lung disease. French clinicians working in the FAI2R and RespiFil healthcare networks report on their experience after setting up a multidisciplinary unit to help practitioners in the field confronted with this problem:
- this unit is made up of lung specialists, internists, rheumatologists, radiologists, intensive care units, transplant specialists and immunogists,
- it operates in the form of remote exchanges, like an urgent multidisciplinary consultation meeting (RCP) held within 48 to 72 hours,
- the cases of 26 patients monitored in 19 French centres and one in Quebec have been studied by this unit over 26 months (period 2021-2024),
- this service proved to be feasible and very useful.
