Chondrocalcinosis as a possible cause of arthritis in pachydermoperiostosis?

Excessive Attenuation of Measles Virus as a Possible Cause of Failure in Measles Immunization

A rare cause of digital clubbing: pachydermoperiostosis

A 35-year-old man of Tunisian origin complained of inflammatory arthralgia and he had noticed a progressive enlargement of his hands and feet as well as facial furrowing. On examination, he had thickening of the skin of the head and distal extremities and deep folds and furrows of the skin of the forehead (A), digital clubbing of fingers (B) and toes (C), spadelike enlargement of the hands and ...

A possible cause of joint destruction in septic arthritis

Received: 2 August 1999 Accepted: 31 August 1999 Published: 9 September 1999 © Current Science Ltd Important note about how to cite this article This article is also available online in the Arthritis Research website. To avoid confusion, please ensure that only the online version of the article is cited in any reference, as follows: Krieg AM: A possible cause of joint destruction in septic arth...

Neurovascular mechanisms as a possible cause of remission of rheumatoid arthritis in hemiparetic limbs.

C holesterol emboli syndrome (CES) can be confused with a small vessel vasculitis but it is unusual for it to be mistaken for giant cell arteritis. We report a patient with temporal headaches, transient visual loss, and raised inflammatory indices, which led to an initial diagnosis of giant cell arteritis, but in whom CES was the eventual explanation. A 64 year old woman with treated hypertensi...

Intravenous Methylprednisolone, a Possible Cause of the Atrial Fibrillation

       We are presenting a case illustrating atrial fibrillation (AF) following the use of methylprednisolone in a patient with pelvic and femur fracture. A 48- year- old man with no significant past medical history, was admitted to the emergency department after injury in a car accident. He suffered a multiple bone fracture with chief complaints of pain and shortness of breath. He was transfer...