Adult-onset Still's disease in a patient over 80 years old successfully treated with low-dose methotrexate therapy

Age and Ageing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 104-106

  Kurasawa, Miwa ^a   Kotani, Kazuhiko ^b   Kurasawa, Gotaro ^a   Shida, Kousuke ^a   Yamada, Shigeki ^c   Tago, Toshihiko ^a  

^a Nishiagatsuma Welfare Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult onset Still's disease; Elderly; Hypercytokinaemia; Japanese; Low dose methotrexate; Pulse methylprednisolone; Super old patients

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYTOKINE; FERRITIN; INTERLEUKIN 18; LOXOPROFEN; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISOLONE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT;

ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LABORATORY TEST; LOW DRUG DOSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SORE THROAT; BLOOD; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG COMBINATION;

PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; CYTOKINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET;

EID: 33947592856     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afl128     Document Type: Article

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