A misdiagnosed case of antisynthetase syndrome complicated by myocarditis: when the cardiologist deals with rheumatology.

abstract：:Fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) premutation carriers, who are at risk of having children with fragile X Syndrome, were initially considered as clinically unaffected. However, recent clinical and molecular studies have shifted this point of view. The incidence of premutation in the general population is substanti...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Martorell L,Tondo M,Garcia-Fructuoso F,Naudo M,Alegre C,Gamez J,Genovés J,Poo P

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe clinical and epidemiological data of Behçet's disease (BD) in Brazil, we retrospectively reviewed records of all patients seen between 2006 and 2007 at the BD outpatient clinic of University of Sao Paulo. One hundred and six patients fulfilled the International Study Group for Behçet's Disease diagnostic c...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Neves FS,Caldas CA,Lage LV,Goldenstein-Schainberg C,Gonçalves CR

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sarcoidosis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by non-caseating granuloma which etiology is unknown yet. Adipokines are different proteins synthesized by adipose tissue that have an influence on angiogenesis, hemostasis, lipid metabolism, and immune system regulation. Adipokines may play a role ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kobak S,Semiz H,Akyildiz M,Gokduman A,Atabay T,Vural H

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pair of identical twins suffering from ankylosing spondylitis is reported. One brother developed an earlier-onset disease and showed ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament and the flavum ligament in his cervical spine. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Olivieri I,Pappone N,Padula A,Rengo C,Ruju GP,Pucino A,Trippi D,Ferri S,Pasero G

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association between pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was not investigated in the setting of controlled studies. The risk of PG among patients with RA is not established. OBJECTIVE:The study aims to evaluate the magnitude of the association between RA and the subsequent development...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kridin K,Damiani G,Cohen AD

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate whether corticosteroid use is the etiological agent in acute pancreatitis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, or whether it is related to the underlying connective tissue disorder. Hospital admissions at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital between 1982 and 2002 that ca...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Derk CT,DeHoratius RJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report one case of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in a patient, with a 30-year history of rheumatoid arthritis, taking low dose methotrexate weekly over a 10-month period. The mild immunosuppression that occurs with methotrexate therapy probably places patients with rheumatoid arthritis at added risk of developing lymphoprol...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Taillan B,Garnier G,Castanet J,Ferrari E,Pesce A,Dujardin P

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis is highly genetic, with a heritability greater than 90 %. Presence of the HLA-B27 MHC class I allele remains the greatest genetic risk factor identified to date. Beyond its nominal role in antigen presentation, HLA-B27 displays interesting and possibly unique biochemical charac...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Smith JA

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-week double-blind randomized drug trial followed by an open extension period of 36 weeks was carried out in 38 male patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) to compare the efficacy and safety of diflunisal (500 mg twice daily) and phenylbutazone (200 mg twice daily). Both drugs proved to be effective in improvin...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Franssen MJ,Gribnau FW,van de Putte LB

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a class, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha inhibitors have provided clinicians significant control over chronic inflammatory diseases. With their widespread use has come the emergence of new side effects such as the reactivation of latent infections. One such infection that may reactivate is the hepatitis B virus (...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Carroll MB,Forgione MA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of Paget's sarcoma of bone are described. The first one is mainly characterized by the almost simultaneous degeneration of the only two existing locations of the underlying Paget's disease. The second case is one of monostotic Paget's disease of the scapula disclosed by the malignant degeneration. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Huaux JP,Esselinckx W,Noel H,Grodos J,Nagant de Deuxchaisnes C

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study is to determine the risk factors for the development of reactive arthritis (ReA) and examine the factors associated with the persistence of symptoms. Patients with a new diagnosis of ReA and controls with a gastrointestinal (GI), urogenital, or sexually transmitted infection in the 3-6 month...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Garcia Ferrer HR,Azan A,Iraheta I,Von Feldt J,Espinoza LR,Manasson J,Scher JU,Garcia Kutzbach A,Ogdie A

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage activation syndrome (MAS), which can also be considered as reactive hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS), is a rare and potentially fatal complication of rheumatic diseases. We describe a 42-year-old woman in whom MAS developed as a complication of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). She suffered from fever and low back ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Lou YJ,Jin J,Mai WY

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two cases of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and concomitant hepatitis C virus infection (HCV), treated with cyclosporine A (CsA) and anti-TNF-alpha agents. SGOT/SGPT and HCV-RNA serum levels remained unchanged longer than 1 year of treatment. No side effects were registered. We suggest that combination...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bellisai F,Giannitti C,Donvito A,Galeazzi M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 43-year-old man suffered from migrating then additive arthralgias associated with macroscopic and microscopic cutaneous lesions compatible at first sight with reticular erythematous mucinosis. After nine months, the cutaneous picture evolved into a papular mucinosis. The patient developed "multiple frozen joints" wi...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Dufour JP,Lachapelle JM,Nagant de Deuxchaisnes C,Devogelaer JP,Noel H,Maldague B

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional limitation is often complained by patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). With a rising number of patients suffering from AS, there are a limited number of reports focusing on functional limitation of AS in Chinese patients. This study was conducted to investigate the level of functional limitation and e...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Song Y,Wang C,Chen H

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with increased vascular calcification, although the rate of progress of calcification is uncertain. The aim of the study was to evaluate the progression of and the predictors for calcification in different vascular beds over 10 years. The 10-year actual coronary calcium score (C...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Liu JH,Ng MY,Cheung T,Chung HY,Chen Y,Zhen Z,Zou Y,Mak KF,Khong PL,Lau CS,Tse HF,Yiu KH

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is prevalent among Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, and Jewish people and it must always be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients from these ethnic groups presenting with recurrent abdominal pain with fever. In cases of fever and recurrent abdominal pain, acute pancreatitis ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Birlik M,Demir T,Zeybel M,Akar S,Onen F,Comlekci A,Tunca M,Akkoc N

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 73-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of persistent high fever and cough, generalized myalgia, and renal dysfunction. Laboratory examination revealed severe inflammatory signs, pulmonary fibrosis, progression of renal impairment with active nephritic urinary sediments, and a high titer of myeloperox...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Sugimoto T,Kanasaki K,Koyama T,Yokomaku Y,Yasuda H,Kashiwagi A,Koya D

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of vitamin C on 1,25(OH)2D3 synthesis in humans were evaluated; the study included 20 females. They were divided into 2 groups. The first of the 10 subjects (age range 55-71) received ascorbic acid at a dose of 150 mg/die i.v. for 10 days; the second 10 subjects (age range 55-69) received a placebo i.v. fo...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Cantatore FP,Loperfido MC,Magli DM,Mancini L,Carrozzo M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to describe the long-term toxicity of antirheumatic and anti-inflammatory drugs in a paediatric rheumatology clinic population. One hundred and seventeen children were studied on first admission to a paediatric rheumatology clinic and after a mean of 8.6 +/- 0.4 years of follow-up. Medical rec...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Flatø B,Vinje O,Førre O

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with peripheral neuropathy, polymyalgia, arthralgia and cervical vertebral osteosclerosis who was subsequently diagnosed to have fatal multiple myeloma with IgG gammopathy and lambda urinary chains. The initial presentation and clinical features are discussed. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Samanta A,Hilton D,Roy S

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) are considered a risk factor for granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) exacerbation, especially when staphylococcal superantigens (SAgs) are present in nasal swabs. Their role in monitoring disease activity remains controversial. This study determined the relatio...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Fijolek J,Wiatr E,Petroniec V,Augustynowicz-Kopec E,Bednarek M,Gawryluk D,Roszkowski-Sliz K

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effectiveness of steroid injection (local treatment, LT) into the digital flexor tendon sheath of dactylitis in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients as compared with systemic treatment (ST). METHODS:Forty-six PsA patients with a total of 73 dactylitic fingers were assessed in an observational, mu...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Girolimetto N,Macchioni P,Citriniti G,Tinazzi I,Bascherini V,Martinis F,Marchetta A,Possemato N,Tasso M,Peluso R,Punzi L,Salvarani C,Scarpa R,McGonagle D,Costa L,Caso F

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monovariate and multivariate analyses including logistic regression were performed to determine associations among predicting variables [age, gender, immunofluorescence pattern, and anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) titer] and anti-extractable nuclear antigen (ENA) and -dsDNA antibodies (Abs) in 1089 patients with positive ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kang I,Siperstein R,Quan T,Breitenstein ML

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 22-year-old African male with known sickle cell anaemia was referred by a Congolese medical centre with a request to improve his poor physical condition. He was unable to walk, stand or sit because his large joints and his spine were either ankylosed or very rigid. Radiographs showed joint fusion from the third to t...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Dumarey N,Martin P,Jayankura M,Putz P,Verhas M,Peretz A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the records of 315 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with low-dose methotrexate (MTX) and evaluated the conditions contributing to thrombocytopenia. Thirteen out of 315 patients with RA presented with low platelet counts (< or = 100.000/mm3). The age of these patients (51 +/- 12.6 years) did ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Franck H,Rau R,Herborn G

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a 53-year-old woman diagnosed of systemic sclerosis. She underwent an episode of pulmonary haemorrhage, characterized by haemoptysis, sudden anaemization, and bilateral alveolar infiltration during her hospitalization, which was resolved with steroid treatment. Subsequently, she developed a focal n...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Alvarez Vega JL,Salazar Vallinas JM,Ortega Alberdi R,Muñoz Sanz A,Turegano JM,Fernandez Alonso J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS) is characterized by recurrent episodes of inflammation with fever, abdominal pain, chest pain, rash, myalgia, arthralgia, conjunctivitis, and periorbital edema. This condition is a rare autosomal dominant disease that is strongly associated with heter...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Chen Y,Huang X,Zheng S,Zhu Z,Yang W,Liu J

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the distinctive chest high-resolution computerized tomography (HRCT) features and clinical manifestations of primary Sjögren syndrome (pSS)-related interstitial lung disease (ILD). The demographic data, clinical manifestations, and laboratory and radiological findings of 527 pSS patients were retrospec...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Dong X,Zhou J,Guo X,Li Y,Xu Y,Fu Q,Lu Y,Zheng Y

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00