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There is a well recognised association between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and bronchiectasis. Walker observed a 10-fold increased prevalence of bronchiectasis in RA.1 The increased incidence of pulmonary disease in his study could not be explained by the greater susceptibility to infection by patients with RA because the symptoms of bronchiectasis preceded those of arthritis in the majority of the cases. Earlier reports found the prevalence of bronchiectasis in RA to be between 1 and 10%.1 However, with the advent of high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the lung, later studies reported a prevalence of 25–30%.2,3 This is important as HRCT is a more sensitive method of detecting bronchiectasis, and it is generally accepted …