Propylthiouracil-induced lupus-like or vasculitis syndrome

Propylthiouracil-induced lupus-like or vasculitis syndrome

A 27 year old female with Graves' disease presented with fever, exertional dyspnea and polyarthralgia. Erythema nodosum had occured three months earlier. The patient declared irregular use of propylthiouracil (PTU) for the last 8 months. Neutropenia and microscopic hematuria developed in the second week of admission. Chest X-ray showed inhomogenous pulmonary opacities, left pleural effusion and...

Lupus-like syndrome and vasculitis induced by valpromide.

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Colonic ulcers in propylthiouracil induced vasculitis with secondary antiphospholipid syndrome.

A 48 year old white woman was admitted to the hospital because of several bouts of migratory polyarthritis, weight loss, fever, and abdominal pain over a period of 15 months. She had been taking propylthiouracil 100 mg daily for three years for hyperthyroidism treatment. A test for antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (ANCA) was positive with a perinuclear pattern of staining. Antiphosphol...

Propylthiouracil Induced Vasculitis: A Rare Adverse Event

Etanercept-induced pleuropericardial lupus-like syndrome.

Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-a is currently being targeted in autoimmune joint diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondylarthropathies [1, 2]. Widespread use of antiTNF-a therapies (e.g. etanercept) has unveiled a spectrum of adverse effects, including infection [3] and a systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)-like syndrome [4]. The latter appears to be biologically based on perturba...