An Atypical Presentation of Rheumatoid Arthritis as an Asymmetrical Arthropathy

We report a rare entity of distinctly asymmetrical rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a 71-year-old Chinese lady with a history of cervical radiculopathy secondary to trauma sustained during childhood. The joints on the side of the paresis were spared from severe clinical and radiological manifestations o...

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Autores principales: Wong, Marc, Jia Loon, Chong, Rajasoorya, C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8561669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34745777
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18452
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description We report a rare entity of distinctly asymmetrical rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a 71-year-old Chinese lady with a history of cervical radiculopathy secondary to trauma sustained during childhood. The joints on the side of the paresis were spared from severe clinical and radiological manifestations of RA. We review the plausible mechanisms that could explain the link between neurological impairment and rheumatoid joint involvement.
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spelling pubmed-85616692021-11-04 An Atypical Presentation of Rheumatoid Arthritis as an Asymmetrical Arthropathy Wong, Marc Jia Loon, Chong Rajasoorya, C. Cureus Internal Medicine We report a rare entity of distinctly asymmetrical rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a 71-year-old Chinese lady with a history of cervical radiculopathy secondary to trauma sustained during childhood. The joints on the side of the paresis were spared from severe clinical and radiological manifestations of RA. We review the plausible mechanisms that could explain the link between neurological impairment and rheumatoid joint involvement. Cureus 2021-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8561669/ /pubmed/34745777 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18452 Text en Copyright © 2021, Wong 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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Wong, Marc
Jia Loon, Chong
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An Atypical Presentation of Rheumatoid Arthritis as an Asymmetrical Arthropathy
title An Atypical Presentation of Rheumatoid Arthritis as an Asymmetrical Arthropathy
title_full An Atypical Presentation of Rheumatoid Arthritis as an Asymmetrical Arthropathy
title_fullStr An Atypical Presentation of Rheumatoid Arthritis as an Asymmetrical Arthropathy
title_full_unstemmed An Atypical Presentation of Rheumatoid Arthritis as an Asymmetrical Arthropathy
title_short An Atypical Presentation of Rheumatoid Arthritis as an Asymmetrical Arthropathy
title_sort atypical presentation of rheumatoid arthritis as an asymmetrical arthropathy
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8561669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34745777
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18452
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