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Vértebras Lombares , Pseudoartrose/diagnóstico por imagem , Pseudoartrose/etiologia , Espondilite Anquilosante/complicações , Vértebras Torácicas , Humanos , Inflamação , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Pseudoartrose/imunologia , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios XRESUMO
In this study lymphapheresis over a 5-week period was compared with a period of rest in 8 patients with active severe rheumatoid arthritis. These patients failed to respond to gold or/and to D-penicillamine. All the patients treated by lymphapheresis improved in the first 2 or 3 weeks and one patient in the control group improved in 3 weeks. The laboratory findings and the 99mTc-pertechnetate uptake index of the joints were inconsistent. In this study lymphapheresis had a clinically modest beneficial effect which in 3 of 4 patients persisted even after 18 weeks.
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Artrite Reumatoide/terapia , Leucaférese , Descanso , Artrite Reumatoide/diagnóstico , Estudos de Avaliação como Assunto , Feminino , Humanos , LinfócitosRESUMO
Two patients with progressive scleroderma had severe gastrointestinal blood loss. Endoscopical examination revealed multiple telangiectase in the upper gastrointestinal tract, especially in the stomach. The telangiectases in the skin and the mucosa in systemic sclerosis are indistinguishable endoscopically and histologically from those seen in hereditary hemaorrhagic telangiectasia. Recurrent and severe gastrointestinal hemorrhage originating from telangiectases is an unusual complication of systemic sclerosis.
