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F Eulderink

Publications and source records attributed to F Eulderink.

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PubMed1976

Pathology of the cervical spine in rheumatoid arthritis: a controlled study of 44 spines.

Cervical spines (with occiputs) of 44 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were compared with 44 control spines from patients without RA, matched for sex and age. There were six severe and seven slight atlanto-axial dislocations (both horizontal and vertical, two of which had been treated surgically) in the RA group and none in the control group. Ankylosis, synchondrosis, syndesmosis, bone erosions, and redness of synovial tissue in the atlanto-axial, atlanto-occipital and cervical intervertebral joints were more frequent in the RA group than in the control spines. The lesions permitting the best discrimination between the RA and control groups were used to calculate an overall score for the whole cervical spine. Sixteen of the 44 RA patients scored higher than the highest control value; only nine scored lower than the median control score. A higher score than the average value found for the RA spines was obtained by the male patients, the patients with seropositivity or subcutaneous nodules, the patients treated with corticosteroids, the patients who died in the Department of Rheumatology, and those whose death was related to the RA itself or to the treatment given.

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PubMed1976

Effect of warfarin on the induction and course of experimental endocarditis.

The effect of warfarin treatment on an experimental endocarditis was studied in rabbits. Warfarin had no effect on the induction of a Streptococcus sanguis infection in catheter-induced endocardial vegetations, and the course of this infection was also unaltered. However, warfarin treatment resulted in rapidly progressive bacteremia, probably due to impaired circulation in clearing organs such as the lungs, liver, and spleen. Warfarin also reduced the survival time of the infected rabbits, in which pulmonary edema and extensive lung hemorrhages may have been a contributory factor.

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Multilocular renal cyst associated with transposition of the inferior vena cava and malrotation of the bowel.

A case is presented of an adult male patient with a heavily calcified multilocular renal cyst (Permann's tumor), transposition of the inferior vena cava and reversed rotation (malrotation) of the bowel. Because of the synchronous embryological development of the forementioned structures, a possible congenital etiology of the multilocular renal cyst is suggested.

Calcinosis↗
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Chronic synovitis with marked infiltration of granulocytes in a patient with an unusual development of systemic lupus erythematosus.

The case described concerns a patient initially presenting the clinical symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, including the presence of nodules, and slowly developing into systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Besides the signs of chronic inflammation in the synovial tissue, many granulocytes and PAS-positive macrophages were present. At electronmicroscopy the basal membranes of the vessels were multilaminated and the endothelial cells enlarged while many macrophages contained large clumps of electrondense material which could easily be interpreted as rough endoplasmatic reticulum (RER) of plasma cells. Immunoflourescence studies showed deposition of immunoglobulins and complement in the vessel walls of the synovium, thus suggesting an immune-complex pathogenesis.

Arthritis, Rheumatoid↗
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Do adjacent joints compensate for decreased mobility in a cervical spine segment?

The data from a combined pathological and kinesiological investigation in autopsy specimens of the cervical spine were used to test whether adjacent motion segments compensate for loss of mobility at a given level. In the segments adjacent to a low-mobile one no evidence was found of compensatory hypermobility, of an increase in the number and size of disk splits (which might have enhanced mobility), or of increased variation in mobility. On the contrary, a positive correlation of decreased mobility was present between the segments and their neighbors. Degenerative lesions affecting several levels of the same spine were probably a main cause of this correlation, but it was in part apparently independent of these lesions (at least as recorded in our study).

Adolescent↗
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Fatal primary pulmonary hypertension in mixed connective tissue disease.

The clinical history and autopsy findings are reported of a 23 year old woman who had symptoms of mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) for 4 years, and who died suddenly from pulmonary hypertension due to proliferative endarteritis of the lung vessels. These arterial lesions resembled those in progressive systemic sclerosis. Children and adolescents with MCTD appear to have an increased risk for getting this complication. The fatal outcome of pulmonary hypertension in MCTD as shown in this and other cases seems to warrant treatment with immunosuppressive drugs.

Adult↗