Synovitis of recent onset. A clinicopathologic study during the first month of disease.
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Adolescent↗
Biomedical subjects
R C Kitridou
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Proceedings: Antismooth muscle antibody in scleroderma.
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Antibodies, Antinuclear↗
Rheumatic diseases and pregnancy: a perspective.
The interaction between certain rheumatic diseases, sex hormones and their wide fluctuation during pregnancy and postpartum may be responsible for the variable course of rheumatic diseases during pregnancy. Important issues include effects on the mother and fetus by the disease, pregnancy and maternal drug therapy.
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Pregnancy in mixed connective tissue disease, poly/dermatomyositis and scleroderma.
Pregnancy related problems in mixed connective tissue disease, polydermatomyositis and scleroderma are analysed. Particular attention is also elevated to the therapeutical approach to these diseases during pregnancy and delivery.
Adrenal Cortex Hormones↗
Chondritis in systemic lupus erythematosus: clinical and immunopathologic studies.
Three patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and relapsing auricular and nasal chondritis are described. Chondritis in SLE is a rare event (less than 1% of our patients), was accompanied by clinical and laboratory evidence of SLE activity and resembled relapsing polychondritis in clinical presentation and pathology. Clinical involvement was limited, cartilage collapse did not occur and response to steroid therapy was prompt. Cartilage inflammation in two ear biopsies was relatively mild, with deposits of IgG and C3 in the chondrofibral junction and adjacent skin vessels. Immune complexes (cryoglobulins) were present in the serum. We postulate an immune complex pathogenesis of this rare manifestation of SLE.
Adult↗
Pregnancy in mixed connective tissue disease: comparison with systemic lupus erythematosus.
The risk of pregnancy was evaluated in 31 patients with mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), 31 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and 51 controls. The fertility rates in MCTD and SLE were unaltered by disease; however, parity was decreased and fetal wastage was increased both before and even more so after onset. It is our observation that pregnancy carries the same risks in MCTD as it does in SLE.
Adult↗