Title Clinical association of serum interleukin 17 levels in systemic sclerosis: Is systemic sclerosis a Th17 disease? Author(s) Murata, Maki; Fujimoto, Manabu; Komura, Kazuhiro; Matsushita, Takashi; Hamaguchi, Yasuhito; Hasegawa, Minoru; Sato, Shinichi; Takehara, Kazuhiko Citation Journal of Dermatological Science, 50(3), pp.240-242; 2008 Issue Date 2008-03-07 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10069/1...

BACKGROUND The association of Kikuchi Fujimoto disease (KFD) with cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) is extremely rare. We report a case of simultaneous diagnosis of KFD and COP. CASE PRESENTATION A 33-year-old male presented with a 1-month cough illness and fever lasting for 5 days. The chest radiograph revealed double lower lobe infiltrate, which was unresponsive to antibiotics. A cervi...

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a syndrome of excessive immune activation that mimics and occurs with other systemic diseases. A 35-year-old female presented with signs of viral illness at 13 weeks of pregnancy and progressed to acute liver failure (ALF). We discuss the diagnosis of HLH and Kikuchi-Fujimoto (KF) lymphadenitis in the context of pregnancy and ALF. HLH may respond to c...

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, also known as histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis of unknown etiopathogenesis, is a self-limited disease which frequently appears as feverish lymphadenomegaly, thus creating the need for differential diagnosis with lymphoma, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), infectious mononucleosis, cat-scratch disease, and toxoplasmosis with lymphonodal impairment. However, there...