MPO-ANCA-positive Wegener’s granulomatosis presenting with hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis: case report and review of the literatureOxford University Press (OUP) - Tập 14 - Trang 179-183 - 2004
Mitsuteru Akahoshi, Goichi Yoshimoto, Hitoshi Nakashima, Katsuhisa Miyake, Yasushi Inoue, Yosuke Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsukamoto, Takahiko Horiuchi, Takeshi Otsuka, Mine Harada
We describe a case of hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis (HCP) associated with Wegener’s granulomatosis (WG) in a 60-year-old man presenting with chronic headache and multiple cranial nerve neuropathies. A test for antibodies to the neutrophil cytoplasmic protein myeloperoxidase (MPO-ANCA) was positive in this case. We review the literature on perinuclear (p)-ANCA-related HCP, including our case...... hiện toàn bộ
Clinical results of alendronate monotherapy and combined therapy with menatetrenone (VitK2) in postmenopausal RA patientsOxford University Press (OUP) - Tập 23 - Trang 450-455 - 2012
Kouji Suzuki, Shigeyoshi Tsuji, Yaeko Fukushima, Takanobu Nakase, Masayuki Hamada, Tetsuya Tomita, Hideki Yoshikawa
We aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of monotherapy with alendronate and combined therapy with alendronate and menatetrenone (vitamin K2 [VitK2]) in postmenopausal rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with osteoporosis or osteopenia. Sixty-two postmenopausal RA patients with untreated osteoporosis or osteopenia (lumbar spine bone density ≤80 % of young adult mean [YAM]) were enrolled: 39 had a...... hiện toàn bộ
Abdominal pain as the initial presentation of Takayasu arteritisOxford University Press (OUP) - Tập 18 - Trang 496-498 - 2008
Yumi Sasae, Yoshitaka Morita, Takeo Sakuta, Minoru Satoh, Tamaki Sasaki, Naoki Kashihara
Abdominal pain is rarely described as a clinical manifestation of Takayasu arteritis, although abdominal vascular involvement is common in this disease. We report the case of a 20-year-old female with Takayasu arteritis who complained of chronic and intermittent abdominal pain. Computed tomographic angiography and ultrasonography were useful in evaluating the abdominal arterial involvement. Takaya...... hiện toàn bộ
Mature ovarian teratoma as a possible cause of fever and clinical exacerbation in Behçet's disease: a case reportOxford University Press (OUP) - Tập 11 - Trang 172-175 - 2001
D. Özatlı, Y. Balaban, İ. C. Haznedarogˇlu, S. Karakuş, D. Ertoy, N. Sayınalp, A. Oto, O. Özcebe, S. Dündar
Behçet's disease (BD) is a chronic relapsing systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology. BD is very rarely associated with neoplastic diseases. We report the case of a 39-year-old woman who had been treated for BD for 3 years. She presented with relapsing oral and genital lesions and persistent high-grade fever which had lasted for 1 month. The possible cause of the exacerbation of BD and fever in t...... hiện toàn bộ
In rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with tocilizumab, the rate of clinical disease activity index (CDAI) remission at 24 weeks is superior in those with higher titers of IgM-rheumatoid factor at baselineOxford University Press (OUP) - - 2011
Shin‐ya Kawashiri, Atsushi Kawakami, Naoki Iwamoto, Keita Fujikawa, Toshiyuki Aramaki, Mami Tamai, Satoshi Yamasaki, Hideki Nakamura, Tomoki Origuchi, Yukitaka Ueki, Kiyoshi Migita, Akiko Mizokami, Kiyoshi Aoyagi, Katsumi Eguchi