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Caplan syndrome rarely causes serious breathing trouble or disability due to lung problems.
Caplan syndrome rarely causes serious breathing trouble or disability due to lung problems.


The nodules may pre-date the appearance of rheumatoid arthritis by several years. Otherwise prognosis is as for RA; lung disease may remit spontaneously, but pulmonary fibrosis may also progress. Coal worker's pneumoconiosis uncommonly causes significant breathing difficulty or disability.
The nodules may pre-date the appearance of rheumatoid arthritis by several years. Otherwise prognosis is as for RA; lung disease may remit spontaneously, but pulmonary fibrosis may also progress.


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Caplan syndrome rarely causes serious breathing trouble or disability due to lung problems.

The nodules may pre-date the appearance of rheumatoid arthritis by several years. Otherwise prognosis is as for RA; lung disease may remit spontaneously, but pulmonary fibrosis may also progress.

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