Case report of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis who developed severe neutropenia, splenomegaly and was diagnosed with Felty's syndrome. The patient later developed Kala-azar. Both diseases have similar clinical and laboratory presentation, making the differential diagnosis difficult. The present case report aims at drawing attention to the identification of visceral Leishmaniasis infection i...

BACKGROUND Rheumatic diseases are a major health and financial burden for societies. The prevalence of rheumatic diseases may change over time, and therefore, we sought to estimate the prevalence of rheumatic diseases in an adult population of central Greece. METHODS In this prospective cross-sectional population survey, a random sample of adult population was drawn from poll catalogues of a ...

Background: Immunosuppressive treatment of rheumatic diseases may be associated with several opportunistic infections of the brain. The differentiation between primary central nervous system (CNS) involvement and CNS infection may be difficult, leading to delayed diagnosis. Objective: To differentiate between CNS involvement and CNS infection in systemic rheumatic diseases. Methods and results:...

BACKGROUND Immunosuppressive treatment of rheumatic diseases may be associated with several opportunistic infections of the brain. The differentiation between primary central nervous system (CNS) involvement and CNS infection may be difficult, leading to delayed diagnosis. OBJECTIVE To differentiate between CNS involvement and CNS infection in systemic rheumatic diseases. METHODS AND RESULT...

Cardiovascular mortality has been found to be increased in rheumatic diseases, which is attributed to accelerated atherosclerosis. 1-3 Chronic systemic inflammation is implicated as the driving force behind accelerated atherosclerosis in rheumatic diseases. 4-5 In RA, mortality due to coronary artery disease was found to be higher than general population indicating increased risk of atheroscler...

©2014 Turkish League Against Rheumatism. All rights reserved. Patients with rheumatic diseases are at an increased risk for malignant lymphoproliferative disease, but the coexistence of rheumatic diseases and multiple myeloma is uncommon. Herein, we report a rare case of systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren's syndrome, which preceded the development of multiple myeloma after three years. We...