Erosive Arthropathy in systemic sclerosis

BACKGROUND: To determine radiological features of arthropathy in systemic sclerosis patients with polyarthritis. RESULTS: Forty one women and 5 men were included in this study. The mean age was 41 + 14,2 years, the mean duration of disease was 10,5+ 6,5 years. Thirty seven patients (80%) had radiolo...

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Autores principales: Allali, Fadoua, Tahiri, Latifa, Senjari, Adil, Abouqal, Redouane, Hajjaj-Hassouni, Najia
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2040159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17888166
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-260
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: To determine radiological features of arthropathy in systemic sclerosis patients with polyarthritis. RESULTS: Forty one women and 5 men were included in this study. The mean age was 41 + 14,2 years, the mean duration of disease was 10,5+ 6,5 years. Thirty seven patients (80%) had radiological abnormalities including joint space narrowing (37%) and erosions (43%). At presentation, the prevalence of radiological foot abnormalities was lower than that of hands (26% vs 79%, p < 0,001). There was no significant difference between patients with (n = 24) and without erosive arthropathy (Joint space narrowing and/or erosion) (n = 22) in terms of cutaneous subtype, organ involvement, calcinosis presence of rheumatoid factor, ANA, Anti-topoisomerase antibodies. CONCLUSION: This study showed an high frequency of erosive arthropathy in our morroccan SSc patients with clinical synovitis.

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