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Hands Deformity in a Patient with IgA Vasculitis

74-year-old female patient with IgA vasculitis was referred for rheumatic evaluation due to arthritic complaints and hand deformities. Physical examination revealed reversible Jaccoud’s arthropathy in both hands, with swan-neck type deformities, while no erosions were present in the X-Ray. Jaccoud’s...

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Autores principales: Ntelis, Konstantinos, Iliopoulos, George, Giannopoulos, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Mediterranean Journal of Rheumatology (MJR) 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9450201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36128205
http://dx.doi.org/10.31138/mjr.33.2.259
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description 74-year-old female patient with IgA vasculitis was referred for rheumatic evaluation due to arthritic complaints and hand deformities. Physical examination revealed reversible Jaccoud’s arthropathy in both hands, with swan-neck type deformities, while no erosions were present in the X-Ray. Jaccoud’s arthropathy is mainly observed can be present in patients with in Rheumatic Fever, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, and Sjogren’s syndrome. The absence of erosions distinguishes this entity from rheumatoid arthritis. There is no specific treatment other than the treatment of the underlying disease.
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spelling pubmed-94502012022-09-19 Hands Deformity in a Patient with IgA Vasculitis Ntelis, Konstantinos Iliopoulos, George Giannopoulos, George Mediterr J Rheumatol Case Report 74-year-old female patient with IgA vasculitis was referred for rheumatic evaluation due to arthritic complaints and hand deformities. Physical examination revealed reversible Jaccoud’s arthropathy in both hands, with swan-neck type deformities, while no erosions were present in the X-Ray. Jaccoud’s arthropathy is mainly observed can be present in patients with in Rheumatic Fever, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, and Sjogren’s syndrome. The absence of erosions distinguishes this entity from rheumatoid arthritis. There is no specific treatment other than the treatment of the underlying disease. The Mediterranean Journal of Rheumatology (MJR) 2022-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9450201/ /pubmed/36128205 http://dx.doi.org/10.31138/mjr.33.2.259 Text en © 2022 The Mediterranean Journal of Rheumatology (MJR) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under and Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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Ntelis, Konstantinos
Iliopoulos, George
Giannopoulos, George
Hands Deformity in a Patient with IgA Vasculitis
title Hands Deformity in a Patient with IgA Vasculitis
title_full Hands Deformity in a Patient with IgA Vasculitis
title_fullStr Hands Deformity in a Patient with IgA Vasculitis
title_full_unstemmed Hands Deformity in a Patient with IgA Vasculitis
title_short Hands Deformity in a Patient with IgA Vasculitis
title_sort hands deformity in a patient with iga vasculitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9450201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36128205
http://dx.doi.org/10.31138/mjr.33.2.259
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