Adult-Onset Still’s Disease in a 28-Year-Old Man From Ghana

Adult-onset Still’s disease is a rare, autoinflammatory disease characterized by spiking fevers, arthritis, salmon-colored skin rash, and leukocytosis. It has been compared to systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis because of its similar features but is much rarer than its pediatric counterpart. It...

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Autores principales: Kashfi, Simon, Sharma, Sapna, Bengualid, Victoria, Sharma, Shorabh, Gandrabur, Liliya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8528165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34692336
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18126
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author Kashfi, Simon
Sharma, Sapna
Bengualid, Victoria
Sharma, Shorabh
Gandrabur, Liliya
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Sharma, Sapna
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description Adult-onset Still’s disease is a rare, autoinflammatory disease characterized by spiking fevers, arthritis, salmon-colored skin rash, and leukocytosis. It has been compared to systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis because of its similar features but is much rarer than its pediatric counterpart. It is usually treated with corticosteroids and disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. However, those with refractory disease are candidates for one of many biological therapies. We present the case of a 28-year-old man who was successfully managed with first-line steroid therapy.
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spelling pubmed-85281652021-10-22 Adult-Onset Still’s Disease in a 28-Year-Old Man From Ghana Kashfi, Simon Sharma, Sapna Bengualid, Victoria Sharma, Shorabh Gandrabur, Liliya Cureus Internal Medicine Adult-onset Still’s disease is a rare, autoinflammatory disease characterized by spiking fevers, arthritis, salmon-colored skin rash, and leukocytosis. It has been compared to systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis because of its similar features but is much rarer than its pediatric counterpart. It is usually treated with corticosteroids and disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. However, those with refractory disease are candidates for one of many biological therapies. We present the case of a 28-year-old man who was successfully managed with first-line steroid therapy. Cureus 2021-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8528165/ /pubmed/34692336 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18126 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kashfi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kashfi, Simon
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Adult-Onset Still’s Disease in a 28-Year-Old Man From Ghana
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8528165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34692336
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18126
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