Bilateral pleural effusion with APLA positivity in a case of rhupus syndrome

Rhupus syndrome is a rare syndrome characterized by overlap of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Our patient was a diagnosed case of RA and developed SLE 2 years after. She was a middle-aged woman, presented with bilateral pleural effusion with exacerbation of skin an...

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Autores principales: Saha, Kaushik, Saha, Arnab, Mitra, Mrinmoy, Panchadhyayee, Prabodh
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4220324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25378850
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.142133
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description Rhupus syndrome is a rare syndrome characterized by overlap of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Our patient was a diagnosed case of RA and developed SLE 2 years after. She was a middle-aged woman, presented with bilateral pleural effusion with exacerbation of skin and joint symptoms of SLE. We diagnosed the case as tubercular pleural effusion by positive Mycobacterium tuberculosis in bactec 460 culture. She had also anti-phospholipid antibody positivity without any symptoms and signs of thrombosis.
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spelling pubmed-42203242014-11-06 Bilateral pleural effusion with APLA positivity in a case of rhupus syndrome Saha, Kaushik Saha, Arnab Mitra, Mrinmoy Panchadhyayee, Prabodh Lung India Case Report Rhupus syndrome is a rare syndrome characterized by overlap of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Our patient was a diagnosed case of RA and developed SLE 2 years after. She was a middle-aged woman, presented with bilateral pleural effusion with exacerbation of skin and joint symptoms of SLE. We diagnosed the case as tubercular pleural effusion by positive Mycobacterium tuberculosis in bactec 460 culture. She had also anti-phospholipid antibody positivity without any symptoms and signs of thrombosis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4220324/ /pubmed/25378850 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.142133 Text en Copyright: © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bilateral pleural effusion with APLA positivity in a case of rhupus syndrome
title Bilateral pleural effusion with APLA positivity in a case of rhupus syndrome
title_full Bilateral pleural effusion with APLA positivity in a case of rhupus syndrome
title_fullStr Bilateral pleural effusion with APLA positivity in a case of rhupus syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral pleural effusion with APLA positivity in a case of rhupus syndrome
title_short Bilateral pleural effusion with APLA positivity in a case of rhupus syndrome
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4220324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25378850
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.142133
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