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Refractory adult-onset Still disease complicated by macrophage activation syndrome and acute myocarditis: A case report treated with high doses (8 mg/kg/d) of anakinra

RATIONALE: Myocarditis is a rare but potentially fatal complication of Still's disease (about 7% of total cases). PATIENT CONCERNS: A 42-year-old woman was admitted to our ward with high-grade fever, rash and polyarthralgia, lasting since 4 weeks and rapidly complicated by MAS and acute heart f...

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Autores principales: Parisi, Federico, Paglionico, Annamaria, Varriano, Valentina, Ferraccioli, Gianfranco, Gremese, Elisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28614216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000006656