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OBJECTIVE
We analysed our experience with the use of iloprost for the treatment of critical ischaemic digits (ID) in children with connective tissue diseases (CTD) in order to assess its safety and efficacy.
METHODS
This was a retrospective analysis of paediatric patients with CTD who were treated
A 36 y/o female presented with the chief complaint of diarrhea and vomiting which had lasted for four days, and with a family history of suicide. The first general examination showed severe dehydration with hyponatremia. After admission, she was diagnosed as having isolated adrenocorticotropic
METHODS
A 33-year-old woman from Laos was admitted due to recurrent vomiting and weight loss. Since one year, she was receiving immunosuppressive therapy (azathioprine 50 mg/d and methylprednisolone 18 mg/d) for a mixed connective tissue disease. Because of a drug induced Stevens-Johnson-Syndrome
The connective tissue disorders are a protean group of acquired diseases which have in common widespread immunologic and inflammatory alterations of connective tissue. The acquired connective tissue diseases generally include the following clinical entities: rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus
Pyometra is the accumulation of pus in the uterine cavity, and spontaneous perforation of pyometra resulting in generalized diffuse peritonitis is extremely uncommon. We report a rare case of diffuse peritonitis caused by spontaneous perforation of pyometra. A 66-year-old postmenopausal woman with
A 57-year old male patient was admitted to our hospital because of severe vomiting and abdominal pain with massive ascites. He had been diagnosed as mixed connective tissue disease in 1997 and lupus nephritis ISN III (A/C) + V in 2003. Treatment was started with intravenous steroid pulse therapy
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to characterize the clinical and motility findings in 62 patients with systemic sclerosis or related disorders referred for evaluation of upper gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms.
METHODS
Methods included retrospective clinical record review and quantitation of