| Autor: |
Dai Kishida, Takanori Ichikawa, Ryota Takamatsu, Shun Nomura, Masayuki Matsuda, Wataru Ishii, Tatsuo Nagai, Sadahiro Suzuki, Ken-ichi Ueno, Naoki Tachibana, Yasuhiro Shimojima, Yoshiki Sekijima |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
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| Zdroj: |
Scientific reports. 12(1) |
| ISSN: |
2045-2322 |
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Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD)—a systemic inflammatory disease—often occurs at a young age. Recently, elderly onset patient proportion has been increasing; however, data are limited. To evaluate the characteristics of elderly patients with AOSD in a multicenter cohort, we retrospectively analyzed 62 patients with AOSD at five hospitals during April 2008–December 2020. Patients were divided into two groups according to age at disease onset: younger-onset (≤ 64 years) and elderly onset (≥ 65 years). Clinical symptoms, complications, laboratory findings, treatment, and outcomes were compared. Twenty-six (41.9%) patients developed AOSD at age ≥ 65 years. The elderly onset group had a lower frequency of sore throat (53.8% vs. 86.1%), higher frequency of pleuritis (46.2% vs. 16.7%), and higher complication rates of disseminated intravascular coagulation (30.8% vs. 8.3%) and macrophage activation syndrome (19.2% vs. 2.8%) than the younger onset group. Cytomegalovirus infections were frequent in elderly onset patients (38.5% vs. 13.9%) but decreased with early glucocorticoid dose reduction and increased immunosuppressant and tocilizumab use. Elderly AOSD is not uncommon; these patients have different characteristics than younger-onset patients. Devising a way to control disease activity quickly while managing infections may be an important goal in elderly AOSD. |
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