Pulmonology · Pulmonology / Occupational lung disease
Caplan syndrome
also: Rheumatoid pneumoconiosis
Rheumatoid arthritis with multiple lung nodules in dust-exposed workers.
- Specialty
- Pulmonology
- Subspecialty
- Pulmonology / Occupational lung disease
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected, male predominance; Female: affected; Children: no
- Gene(s) involved
- HLA-DR4
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Rheumatoid pneumoconiosis
Etiology & mechanism
Exaggerated immune response to mineral dust in rheumatoid disease.
Gene(s) involved (1)
Symptoms & signs (5)
In plain terms, someone with Caplan syndrome may experience the following — click any to explore related syndromes:
Same gene(s)
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Overlapping symptoms
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Shares symptoms with
2 shared
Hughes–Stovin syndrome
cough, dyspnea
2 shared
Middle East respiratory syndrome
cough, dyspnea
2 shared
Reactive airways dysfunction syndrome
cough, dyspnea
2 shared
Superior vena cava syndrome
cough, dyspnea
2 shared
Vocal cord dysfunction syndrome
cough, dyspnea
1 shared
Acute chest syndrome
cough
1 shared
Antisynthetase syndrome
arthritis
1 shared
Behçet syndrome
arthritis
1 shared
Behçet-like haploinsufficiency of A20 syndrome
arthritis
1 shared
Cardiorenal syndrome
dyspnea
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