[Mixed connective tissue disease].

A Case and Literature Review of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus in Mixed Connective Tissue Disease

Normal Pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is characterized by gait apraxia, urinary incontinence, and dementia. Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is an autoimmune connective tissue disease that has never been reported to cause NPH. Our patient was a 67-year man with a one-year history of gradual worsening gait and balance, urinary urgency with urge incontinence and decreased short-term memory. P...

B cell Therapy to Treat an Axonal Neuropathy in Mixed Connective Tissue Disease

The B cell is a vital contributor to humoral immunity. The B cell-specific antigen CD20 is expressed during B cell development, starting at the pre-B cell level and persists through B cell differentiation, but is lost during terminal differentiation to plasma cells. Rituximab is a monoclonal antibody that destroys both normal and malignant B cells that have CD20 on their surfaces and is ther...

Myocarditis in Mixed Connective Tissue Disease: A Case Report

Myocarditis is a serious manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus. It is reported that 5-10% of the patients present symptomatic myocarditis. However, myocarditis in mixed connective tissue disease is uncommon. Only a few cases with mixed connective tissue disease patients who presented symptomatic myocarditis were reported. We herein describe a patient with mixed connective tissue disease...

Management of mixed connective tissue disease

Autoimmune hepatitis as a presenting manifestation of mixed connective tissue disease in a child Case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND Liver disease is rare in the course of mixed connective tissue disease. Most commonly liver steatosis or elevated liver function tests are reported and only a few cases of mixed connective tissue disease associated with autoimmune hepatitis were described. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of an 11-year old boy with hepatitis on admission to the hospital and symptoms and signs of ...

Subcutaneous Mycobacterium avium complex infection in an adolescent with mixed connective tissue disease receiving mycophenolate mofetil

Purpose Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) are non-tuberculous mycobacteria that are ubiquitously found in nature and can cause progressive pulmonary disease, superficial lymphadenitis, and disseminated infection in immunocompromised individuals. In this report, we present a case of disseminated MAC cutaneous disease in a patient with mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) on immunosuppressive t...