The prolonged treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with cortisone and corticotropin

Levin, Melvin H.; Rivo, Julia; Scott, W. P.; Figueroa, William G.; Fred, Leo; Barrett, Thomas F.

doi:10.1016/0002-9343(53)90038-2

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“…Surprisingly, patients with RA had no infections during hospitalization. This is at variance with the experience of several other published series (16)(17)(18). Levin et a1 (16) noted 8 infections in 42 patients with rheumatoid arthritis while on steroids, while Slocumb and co-workers reported an incidence of pneumonitis in approximately 10% of their patients with RA regardless of therapy (17).…”

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confidence: 56%

“…This is at variance with the experience of several other published series (16)(17)(18). Levin et a1 (16) noted 8 infections in 42 patients with rheumatoid arthritis while on steroids, while Slocumb and co-workers reported an incidence of pneumonitis in approximately 10% of their patients with RA regardless of therapy (17). T h e freedom from infection in our RA group may reflect the fact that most of our patients were ambulatory and not debilitated, an important factor when considering the problem of infection in RA (19).…”

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confidence: 56%

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Incidence of infection in systemic lupus erythematosus

Staples

Gerding

Decker

et al. 1974

Arthritis & Rheumatism

239

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Twenty-three patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), 20 with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and 11 with the nephrotic syndrome (NPS) were selected for study of factors affecting the incidence of infection in these diseases. The overall infection rate (infections per 100 hospital days) in patients with SLE was significantly higher than it was in patients with RA or NPS. Infection rate and the number of disseminated infections were found to increase in lupus patients with increasing doses of corticosteroids and decreasing renal function. Lupus patients with normal renal function on no or low-dose corticosteroid therapy had an infection rate significantly higher than the infection rate of the control patient groups. This study suggests that the observed high infection rate in SLE cannot be attributed to steroid therapy and renal disease alone.It has long been the clinical impression that there exists in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus an unusually high incidence of bacterial and mycotic infection (1-7). It has also been thought that the problem of infection in lupus patients may represent no more than a specific example From the Arthritis and Rheumatism Branch, National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases,

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confidence: 56%

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 56%

Incidence of infection in systemic lupus erythematosus

Staples

Gerding

Decker

et al. 1974

Arthritis & Rheumatism

239

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“…may be compared with the aggregate of four other series (Levin, Rivo, Scott, Figueroa, Fred, and Barrett, 1953;West and Newns, 1953;Kemper, Baggenstoss, and Slocumb, 1957;Johnson, Smyth, Holt, Lubchenko, and Valentine, 1959). In a total of 271 necropsies, polyarteritis was reported in eleven cases (4 per cent.).…”

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confidence: 99%

Renal Disease and Drug Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Lawson

MacLean

1966

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

111

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“…Fort et al 9 also reported one case of PAN in a patient with a colonic perforation. Levin et al 10 and Parker and Thomas 11 reported similar cases of perforation, but in patients with associated rheumatoid arthritis. No other cases of PAN with a colonic perforation could be found in our survey of the English- …”

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“…Perforated site RA Rosenblum et al 7 Sigmoid colon ϩ Ascending colon Ϫ Lee et al 4 Cecum Ϫ Roikjaer 8 Cecum Ϫ Fort et al 9 Not described Ϫ Levin et al 10 Not described ϩ Parker and Thomas 11 Sigmoid colon ϩ Cecum ϩ Okada et al (Present case) Sigmoid colon Ϫ RA, Rheumatoid arthritis; ϩ, present; Ϫ, absent language literature. The present case is therefore thought to be both interesting and rare (Table 1).…”

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Perforation of the sigmoid colon with ischemic change due to polyarteritis nodosa

Okada

Konishi

Sakuma

et al. 1999

Journal of Gastroenterology

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A 60-year-old man who developed a perforation of the sigmoid colon with ischemic change due to polyarteritis nodosa is described. Histological examination of the resected colon led to the diagnosis of polyarteritis nodosa. Although the gastrointestinal tract is frequently involved with polyarteritis nodosa, it is extremely rare for polyarteritis nodosa to be accompanied by a perforation of the colon, particularly at the initial presentation.

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The prolonged treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with cortisone and corticotropin

Cited by 62 publications

References 29 publications

Incidence of infection in systemic lupus erythematosus

Incidence of infection in systemic lupus erythematosus

Renal Disease and Drug Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Perforation of the sigmoid colon with ischemic change due to polyarteritis nodosa

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