Acute abdomen in rheumatoid arthritis due to necrotizing arteritis.

Acute abdomen in rheumatoid arthritis due to necrotizing arteritis.

Coronary arteritis complicating rheumatoid arthritis.

The case is described of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who developed heart failure and vasculitis and died of a myocardial infarction. Autopsy showed vasculitis of several major epicardial coronary arteries. Coronary arteritis in a patient with RA is seldom diagnosed during their lifetime but should be suspected when such a patient develops ischaemic heart disease.

The arteritis of rheumatoid arthritis.

The occurrence of vascular lesions in rheumatoid arthritis has been recognized for some time, but interest in them has been of a sporadic nature until recently. In the last few years American workers have published more detailed studies of arteritis in skeletal muscles, subcutaneous nodules, and synovial tissue (Sokoloff and others, 1951, 1953). Sokoloff and his colleagues regarded the lesion i...

Late Onset Takayasu Arteritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis

We encountered the rare case of a 48-year-old Caucasian woman who developed Takayasu arteritis (TA) while suffering from seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Several studies have reported an association between TA and various autoimmune disorders, however, the concurrent presence of Takayasu arteritis and rheumatoid arthritis is described in only few cases in the literature to date. The exac...

Necrotizing tracheobronchitis associated with rheumatoid arthritis

We report a case of necrotizing tracheobronchitis with rheumatoid arthritis. A 64 year-old-man presented with dry cough and was initially diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia. The patient was admitted; he received initial antibiotic treatment. The treatment was effective and the symptoms worsened. Bronchoscopy was performed for more thorough examination. It showed that white and soft tis...