mixed connective tissue disease/phosphatase

Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a rheumatological disease which has to be distinguished from other entities causing inflammatory myopathy. The usual clinical presentation of inflammatory myopathy associated with connective tissue disease is not different from isolated polymyositis or

Polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) from 29 patients with mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) were studied "in vitro" for their phagocytic and chemotactic function as well as for granulocyte alkaline phosphatase (GAP) activity. Fc-receptor expression detected by EA-rosette formation was

An antibody was detected in the sera of patients with certain rheumatic diseases that reacted with the cytoplasm of the splenic red pulp (SRP) cells of adult mice. This antibody was detected in the sera of all patients with mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), 53% of patients with systemic lupus

OBJECTIVE Liver dysfunction is not rare in patients with collagen disease. We sought to elucidate the clinical features of liver dysfunction in the presence of collagen disease. METHODS We analyzed the frequency and causes of liver dysfunction in 607 patients (rheumatoid arthritis [RA], n = 220;