serositis/edema

The SLICC group believed that the definition of pleuritis should be expanded to include new pleural thickening and pericarditis to include characteristic history. Furthermore, SLICC suggested the addition of abdominal serositis to the current serositis criterion, manifested as either diffuse

We report a patient who developed multiple serositis during chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation from a non-inherited maternal antigen (NIMA) -complementary sibling donor. The patient was a 9-year-old boy with myelodysplastic syndrome, who urgently

A 10-year-old girl presented with massive pericardial/pleural effusion with anasarca 216 days after an allogeneic bone marrow transplantation from her HLA-matched sibling for relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She did not show any other symptoms of chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). The

Multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD) is a polyclonal lymphoproliferative disorder that manifests as marked hyper-γ-globulinemia, severe inflammation, anemia, and thrombocytosis. Recently, Takai et al. reported a new disease concept, TAFRO syndrome, named from thrombocytopenia, anasarca, fever,

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that may affect any organ of the body. We report here an unusual case of seronegative SLE presented as vasculitis with rash, lower gastrointestinal system bleeding and acute renal failure. The patient was a 13-year-old

A 70-year-old woman with Sjögren's syndrome (SS) complained of generalized edema. Computed tomography showed thoracoabdominal fluid, suggesting serositis with SS. 35 mg/day of prednisolone as a monotherapy was ineffective. Moreover, hemoconcentration with hypoalbuminemia without inflammatory signs

A 24-year-old man with previous matched unrelated donor allogenic bone marrow transplant for aplastic anaemia and chronic graft versus host disease on steroid taper presented with progressively worsening anasarca. CT revealed large pericardial effusion, while echocardiogram was concerning for early

A case of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) associated with serositis presenting with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is reported. A 53-year-old woman was admitted because of a fever. Laboratory tests revealed increased plasma levels of fibrinogen degradation products (FDP) and

Due to the relative infrequency of lupus membranous nephritis (LMN) compared to other types of lupus nephritis (LN) in pediatric patients, the current literature on pediatric LMN is limited. The knowledge regarding clinical manifestations, outcomes and infectious complications are mainly based on

Vasculitis in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations from cutaneous to visceral involvement and its prognosis ranges from mild to life-threatening. We report the case of a previously healthy 17-year-old woman with eight months' history of arthralgias and

Phlegmonous colitis (PC) is an acute infectious entity caused by bacteria. In this study, we reviewed 8,822 autopsy cases and found 13 cases of PC (0.15%). PC affected 2.43% of patients with hepatic cirrhosis or subacute liver atrophy, both of which were considered to be due to hepatitis viral

Several respiratory complications have been described in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), and are the subject of this review. Involvement of the bronchial tree is the most frequent of them. Chronic bronchitis (16 patients) and bilateral bronchiectasis (16 patients) are responsible for chronic

A 76-year-old woman has got both lower limbs petechia and ecchymosis for 1 month, edema for 6 days and fever for 3 days. The patient suffered from purpura of both lower limbs, edema, arthralgia, recurrent fever, kidney damages, serositis, progressive reduction of platelet, moderate anemia and

OBJECTIVE To explore lupus nephritis (LN) patients' monocyte chemotactic protein 1 (MCP-1) and urinary IP-10 (ulP-10) levels, the correlation between each clinical activity index and rheumatism syndrome, thereby proving objective evidence for microscopic typing of rheumatism

A 10-year-old child presented with prolonged fever, lymphadenopathy, weight loss, oral ulcers, alopecia and parotitis. She later developed arterial thrombosis, poly-serositis, nephritis, myocarditis, sacro-ilitis, autoimmune hemolytic anemia and refractory thrombocytopenia. Though anti-dsDNA was