A 36 years old female presented with symmetrical polyarthritis diagnosed as Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). After six months, she developed tender thyroid swelling diagnosed as autoimmune thyroiditis with hypothyroidism. Another six months later, she developed butterfly rash over the face with exacerbation of polyarthritis and a diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) with antidsDNA positive...

Polyarthritis is a frequent presenting symptom in patients with sarcoidosis (Scadding, 1956; James, 1956). It is especially common in association with erythema nodosum; the combination of polyarthritis, erythema nodosum, and bilateral hilar adenopathy forming one of the distinctive syndromes of this disease (LUfgren, 1953; James, Thomson, and Willcox, 1956). Thus, Lofgren, in his series of 212 ...

To find out clues to differentiate between polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and other diseases that mimic PMR. We studied Japanese patients with PMR (n = 7), pseudogout (n = 1), remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema (RS3PE) syndrome (n = 1), and post-infectious polyarthritis (n = 1). The distribution of inflammation in patients was evaluated using a gallium-67 scintigraphy...

Since 1956 biguanides have received attention as oral hypoglycaemic agents (Krall and Bradley, 1959). Ungar, Madison, and Carter (1960), using phenformin (Dibotin, phenethyl biguanide), showed their effect on peripheral utilization of glucose, Butterfield, Fry, and Holling (1958) having previously demonstrated increased uptake of insulin in hepatic and peripheral tissues. Since then the drug ha...

AIM To establish the etiology of recent out break of polyarthritis which occurred in Kanvari village of Churu district of Rajasthan in August, 1999. METHODOLOGY Forty eight patients of polyarthritis were studied by Hb, TDLC, ESR, CRP, throat swab Gram's stain and culture, blood culture, ASO titer, rheumatoid factor, Rose Bengal plate agglutination test, standard tube agglutination test for br...

We report on pediatric patient with Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS), a rare DNA repair disorder characterized by microcephaly, immunodeficiency and predisposition to malignant lymphomas, who developed juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)-like polyarthritis. In patients with primary immunodeficiencies (PID), septic arthritis due to pyogenic bacteria or mycoplasmal arthritis are the most common o...