Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome mimicking sjögren's syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

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Systemic lupus erythematosus-nephrotic syndrome and mediastinal lymphadenopathy mimicking lymphoma.

Association of Macrophage Activating Syndrome with Castleman’s Syndrome in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Macrophage Activating Syndrome (MAS) is a life-threatening disease seen in autoimmune diseases including lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, Still's disease, polyarteritis nodosa. It is characterized by fever, pancytopenia, liver failure, coagulopathy, and neurologic symptoms and high serum ferritin. A 27 yr. old female patient was admitted in shahid Mostafa Khomeini Hospital (Tehran-Ira...

Acquired von Willebrand’s Syndrome in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

T HE HEREDITARY NATURE of von Willebrand’s disease is well established and, although clinical manifestations are highly variable, most patients develop their initial hemorrhagic symptoms during early childhood. Acquired forms of von Willebrand’s disease have not been reported. The purpose of this report is to describe the unique combination of apparently acquired findings of von Wiflebrand’s di...

Acquired Brown's syndrome in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.

A 27 year old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) developed vertical diplopia with an apparent bilateral inferior oblique muscle palsy, resulting in a limitation of elevation of the globe in adduction. It resolved with systemic steroid treatment. A transient tenosynovitis affecting the superior oblique tendons was the probable underlying pathological mechanism. This is the first descr...