Purtscher-like retinopathy in a patient with adult-onset still's disease and concurrent thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 182-185

  Okwuosa, Tochi M ^a   Lee, Edward W ^a   Starosta, Monika ^a   Chohan, Saima ^a   Volkov, Suncica ^a   Flicker, Michael ^a   Curran, James ^a   Rezaei, Kourous A ^a   Sweiss, Nadera J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MC 0930 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; ONSET AGE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PURTSCHER LIKE RETINOPATHY; RETINOPATHY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; RETINAL DISEASES; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET;

EID: 33846989774     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.22477     Document Type: Article

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