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J Valverde García

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PubMed1999

[Secondary amyloidosis in rheumatoid arthritis. A clinical study of 29 patients].

BACKGROUND: To study the clinical features, outcome and response to therapy in 29 cases of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with secondary amyloidosis (AA). PATIENTS AND METHOD: Twenty-nine patients with RA and AA who were diagnosed during 11 years. RESULTS: The mean age and the mean duration of RA were 63 +/- 12 years and 15 +/- 7 years respectively. The most common initial clinical feature was renal involvement (83%). Nineteen patients were treated with methotrexate. The mean survival time was 42 +/- 8 months. Eleven patients (38%) have deceased. CONCLUSION: Our data confirms that AA in RA is a serious complication with a bleak prognosis. A normal renal function is a good prognosis indicator.

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PubMed1994

[Reactive arthritis. Prospective clinico-microbiologic study].

We study with a prospective design all reactive arthritis diagnosed at the Service of Rheumatology in Bellvitge Hospital during a thirty months period, from August 1985 to February 1988; in order to describe its clinical features, etiological factors and prognosis. Thirty patients who fulfilled the admission criteria were admitted to the study. A previously designed protocol of clinical, serological and microbiologic study was applied to all. A microorganism was identified in 21 patients. In 14 cases it was Yersinia enterocolitica, in 4 Chlamydia trachomatis, in 2 Salmonella enteritidis and in 1 a group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus. The averaged length of the disease was 7.6 +/- 8 months.

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PubMed1992

Infectious arthritis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Eleven cases of infectious arthritis occurring in patients with rheumatoid arthritis are reported. Staphylococcus aureus was the causative organism in eight patients. Streptococcus anginosus and Streptococcus agalactiae in one patient each, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in two patients. The mean duration of symptoms before diagnosis was 16 days in patients with pyogenic arthritis. The diagnosis of joint infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis was especially delayed (57 days). Four patients died; they were found to have a longer time to diagnosis and two of them had multiple joint infection. Although Staphylococcus aureus is the microorganism most often affecting patients with rheumatoid arthritis, infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis must also be considered in such patients.

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