A case of rheumatoid arthritis complicated with systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren's syndrome
| Autor: | Osamu Taniguchi, Shunichi Hirose, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yasushi Yamaguchi, Chiho Ninomiya |
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| Rok vydání: | 1986 |
| Předmět: |
Hemolytic anemia
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Immunology Overlap syndrome General Medicine medicine.disease Dry mouth Dermatology stomatognathic diseases immune system diseases Rheumatoid arthritis Prednisolone medicine Immunology and Allergy medicine.symptom Lymphocytopenia skin and connective tissue diseases business Keratoconjunctivitis medicine.drug Anti-SSA/Ro autoantibodies |
| Zdroj: | Japanese Journal of Clinical Immunology. 9:527-533 |
| ISSN: | 1349-7413 0911-4300 |
| DOI: | 10.2177/jsci.9.527 |
| Popis: | In this report, we described a patient of overlap syndrome of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with sjogren's syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).She had been treated for definite RA for ten years until she was made a diagnosis of SLE according to an oral ulcer, pleuritis, hemolytic anemia, lymphocytopenia, positive reaction of LE test, and existence of various anto-antibodies.Also she was suggested to be accompanied with sjogren's syndrome by dry mouth, dry eye, and keratoconjunctivitis sicca.After the treatment with prednisolone, marked improvement of clinical features and laboratorial data were observed.Up to the present, the case report of overlap syndrome of RA and SLE is rare. This case has many suggestive data about classification of collagen diseases. |
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