OBJECTIVE To report two patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) who developed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to review the literature in terms of coexistence of RA, GCA, and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). METHODS We conducted a comprehensive review of the English literature from 1980 to 2015 to analyze data on the coexistence of GCA and RA. The PubMed, Web of Science, Proquest, and Ovid databa...

Circulating immune complexes were found in 2 of 15 patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) by using a solid phase Clq enzyme linked immunoabsorbent assay (ELISA). The prevalence in controls was 5%. Rheumatoid factor could be demonstrated in 2 out of 27 patients and in 11% of the controls by using a similar ELISA technique. The prevalence of T cells in blood was similar in 25 patients with GCA ...

A 57-year-old Japanese woman with well controlled rheumatoid arthritis visited our hospital with a severe bitemporal headache and marked fatigue. Based on the classification criteria by the American College of Rheumatology, she was diagnosed as having giant cell arteritis. Magnetic resonance (MR) angiography was performed, from which stenotic changes in the bilateral superficial temporal arteri...

Introduction Vasculitis is a well recognized complication of rheumatoid arthritis tending to occur in individuals with severe seropositive nodular disease. It commonly affects small vessels, particularly the digital arteries where the lesion is usually intimal proliferation without significant arterial wall necrosis. Focal ischaemic micro-infarction often occurs, occasionally leading to localiz...

conclusions clinicians should be aware that tbm might have unusual presentations. early diagnosis and treatment are essential to decrease mortality and morbidity such as irreversible neurological deficits. case presentation a 66-year-old diabetic man was admitted to our hospital. he complained of prolonged left otalgia and headache. antibiotic therapy was started for mastoiditis and otitis medi...

A survey of the prevalence of chronic arthritic conditions was carried out on a population of 35,251 patients registered with 29 general practitioners in the highlands of Scotland. Symptomatic osteoarthritis had an overall prevalence of 65 per 1000 but rose from one in 20 of those aged 40-50 years to one quarter of those over 70 years of age. Rheumatoid arthritis was present in 5.5 per 1000 wit...

takayasu's arteritis and crohn's disease co morbidity seems to be rare. to our knowledge, no patient with crohn - takayasu syndrome has been reported yet from our region. herein we present a 22 year old iranian woman previously diagnosed with crohn's disease with subsequent development of takayasu's arteritis.

Recently certain pathological investigations have indicated that there is frequently widespread involvement of the neuromuscular system in rheumatoid arthritis, and it has been suggested that this may be responsible for the prominent neuromuscular clinical features of the disease. Curtis and Pollard (1940) were the first to describe the non-articular lesion which was common to all their eleven ...

Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is an inflammatory disease of unknown etiology affecting elderly patients and characterized by muscle pain and morning stiffness in proximal areas (pelvic and shoulder girdles and neck). It is sometimes difficult to distinguish PMR from rheumatoid arthritis (RA), or vasculitis. In the present study, we examined the clinical characteristics of the patients diagnosed ...

The seasonal distribution in the onset of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) was determined in 58 patients with the disease and compared with that in 44 patients affected by rheumatoid arthritis of elderly onset (EORA). Thirty six (62%) cases of PMR developed during May to August; by contrast, only 14 (31%) cases of EORA developed in the same months, this latter disease failing to show any seasonal c...