| Autor: |
Iba Ba J; Centre hospitalier de Libreville, Service de médecine A, BP 2228 Libreville, Gabon. ibabajose@yahoo.fr, Nzenze JR, Moubamba F, Mboumba AS, Missounga L, Bignoumba Ibouili R, Coniquet S, Moussavou Kombila JB, Boguikouma JB |
| Jazyk: |
francouzština |
| Zdroj: |
Sante (Montrouge, France) [Sante] 2011 Apr-Jun; Vol. 21 (2), pp. 97-101. |
| DOI: |
10.1684/san.2011.0241 |
| Abstrakt: |
Still disease is an inflammatory rheumatism occurring predominantly in children and adolescents, but which is sometimes diagnosed in adults. A combination of fever, arthralgia, transient dermatological lesions, hyperleucocytosis predominantly neutrophilic, and ferritinaemia greater than 1,000 μg/L is suggestive of this disease, but infectious, haematological, immunological, and tumor diseases must first be ruled out. Accordingly, patients' financial limitations keep this disease from being diagnosed often in sub-Saharan Africa. We report four cases of Still disease with favourable outcome after corticosteroid therapy. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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