Wegener’s granulomatosis in which rheumatoid factor was useful for evaluating the disease status: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Accurate evaluation of disease status is very important in treatment of Wegener's granulomatosis CASE PRESENTATION: A 73-year-old Japanese man presented with chronic sinusitis and otitis media. He was admitted to our hospital because of bilateral lung nodules. Cytoplasmic antineut...

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Autores principales: Oshita, Hideto, Matsumoto, Hiromi, Hoshino, Teppei, Omori, Keitaro, Okamoto, Naoki, Awaya, Yukikazu
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829787
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6323
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author Oshita, Hideto
Matsumoto, Hiromi
Hoshino, Teppei
Omori, Keitaro
Okamoto, Naoki
Awaya, Yukikazu
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Matsumoto, Hiromi
Hoshino, Teppei
Omori, Keitaro
Okamoto, Naoki
Awaya, Yukikazu
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description INTRODUCTION: Accurate evaluation of disease status is very important in treatment of Wegener's granulomatosis CASE PRESENTATION: A 73-year-old Japanese man presented with chronic sinusitis and otitis media. He was admitted to our hospital because of bilateral lung nodules. Cytoplasmic antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody was negative but his rheumatoid factor was high. He was diagnosed with limited Wegener's granulomatosis and received remission induction therapy. His serum rheumatoid factor level correlated with the Wegener's granulomatosis state when he experienced a severe infection and recurrence due to Wegener's granulomatosis. CONCLUSION: We describe a case of Wegener's granulomatosis in which rheumatoid factor was helpful for evaluating the therapeutic effect.
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spelling pubmed-27401212009-10-14 Wegener’s granulomatosis in which rheumatoid factor was useful for evaluating the disease status: a case report Oshita, Hideto Matsumoto, Hiromi Hoshino, Teppei Omori, Keitaro Okamoto, Naoki Awaya, Yukikazu Cases J Case report INTRODUCTION: Accurate evaluation of disease status is very important in treatment of Wegener's granulomatosis CASE PRESENTATION: A 73-year-old Japanese man presented with chronic sinusitis and otitis media. He was admitted to our hospital because of bilateral lung nodules. Cytoplasmic antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody was negative but his rheumatoid factor was high. He was diagnosed with limited Wegener's granulomatosis and received remission induction therapy. His serum rheumatoid factor level correlated with the Wegener's granulomatosis state when he experienced a severe infection and recurrence due to Wegener's granulomatosis. CONCLUSION: We describe a case of Wegener's granulomatosis in which rheumatoid factor was helpful for evaluating the therapeutic effect. Cases Network Ltd 2009-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2740121/ /pubmed/19829787 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6323 Text en © 2009 Oshita et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
Oshita, Hideto
Matsumoto, Hiromi
Hoshino, Teppei
Omori, Keitaro
Okamoto, Naoki
Awaya, Yukikazu
Wegener’s granulomatosis in which rheumatoid factor was useful for evaluating the disease status: a case report
title Wegener’s granulomatosis in which rheumatoid factor was useful for evaluating the disease status: a case report
title_full Wegener’s granulomatosis in which rheumatoid factor was useful for evaluating the disease status: a case report
title_fullStr Wegener’s granulomatosis in which rheumatoid factor was useful for evaluating the disease status: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Wegener’s granulomatosis in which rheumatoid factor was useful for evaluating the disease status: a case report
title_short Wegener’s granulomatosis in which rheumatoid factor was useful for evaluating the disease status: a case report
title_sort wegener’s granulomatosis in which rheumatoid factor was useful for evaluating the disease status: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829787
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6323
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