Intestinal complications in rheumatoid arteritis and their relationship to corticosteroid therapy
| Autor: | David C. Hurst, J. Claude Bennett, Gene V. Ball, William W. Prillaman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1974 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Pathology Time Factors Epidemiology medicine.medical_treatment Arthritis Gastroenterology Steroid Arthritis Rheumatoid Sex Factors Adrenal Cortex Hormones Internal medicine medicine Humans Arteritis Cause of death business.industry Age Factors Histology medicine.disease Intestinal Diseases Rheumatoid arthritis Female Age of onset business Complication |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Chronic Diseases. 27:475-481 |
| ISSN: | 0021-9681 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0021-9681(74)90040-x |
| Popis: | 1488 selected case reports of patients with rheumatoid arthritis were reviewed for intestinal arteritis as a complication of rheumatoid arteritis and for any possible relationship of this complication to previous steroid therapy. A total of 254 patients was found with rheumatoid arteritis, of whom 144 had received preceding steroids. Intestinal arteritis was described in 43 patients. These patients were divided into steroid and non-steroid treated groups: 31 had received previous steroid therapy, 9 had not, and in 3 steroid therapy was not described. There was no difference between the two groups in age of onset, duration, or staging of arthritis. Further comparison between the steroid and non-steroid treated groups disclosed no significant difference in occurrence of intestinal complications, histology of the lesions, or number of lesions per patient as a cause of death. From these observations it appears that steroid therapy neither causes nor aggravates arteritis in rheumatoid disease. |
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