Psoriatic arthropathy in a 17th century archaeological protestant population belonging to Saint-Maurice cemetery in France

Psoriatic arthropathy in a 17th century archaeological protestant population belonging to Saint-Maurice cemetery in France

The protestant cemetery of Saint-Maurice as well as what remains of the Charenton Temple (1607-1686) are among the most recently excavated sites of the Val de Marne. The salvage excavation directed by J. Y. Dufour of Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (INRAP) in 2005, where a medical facility was built, was instrumental in flagging not only an important 17 th century pro...

Cyclosporine in psoriatic arthropathy.

Psoriatic arthropathy (PsA) is an inflammatory arthropathy associated with skin or nail psoriasis with heterogeneous clinical manifestations. A pragmatic therapeutic approach to PsA is to stratify the disease manifestations according to their response to synthetic and biological agents. It is now reasonably well established that peripheral arthritis is amenable to treatment with synthetic disea...

Le Morne Cemetery: Archaeological Investigations

Psoriatic arthropathy: where now?

P soriatic arthropathy is a common inflammatory arthritis that characteristically occurs in individuals with psoriasis [1]. PsA was classified as a distinct entity for the first time in 1964 [2], but the antiquity of this disease can be dated back tens of centuries [3]. The many faces of PsA have historically complicated the timely diagnosis on the one hand, while its aggressive and destructive...

Severe psoriatic acroosteolysis in the absence of psoriatic arthropathy.

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION The patient was a 74-year-old gentleman with underlying palmoplantar psoriasis ( fi gure 1 ). He was electively admitted for left below knee amputation for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma at his left heel with locoregional spread. He was incidentally found to have symmetrical shortening of his fi ngers. On further questioning, we discovered that this had occurred over a per...