Pulmonary hypertension in a patient with adult-onset stills disease

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1359-1361

  Mubashir, Eisha ^a   Ahmed, M Mubashir ^a   Hayat, Samina ^a   Heldmann, Maureen ^a   Berney, Seth Mark ^a  

^a Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult onset Still's disease; Autoimmune rheumatic diseases; Pulmonary arterial hypertension

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; METHOTREXATE; NIFEDIPINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISONE; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOT EDEMA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEG EDEMA; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SYNOVITIS; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET;

EID: 34447117479     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-006-0382-3     Document Type: Article

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