Diffuse chronic leptomeningitis with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis: Report of a case successfully treated as rheumatoid leptomeningitis

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 556-562

  Shimada, Kota ^a   Matsui, Toshihiro ^a   Kawakami, Misato ^a   Hayakawa, Hiromi ^a   Futami, Hidekazu ^a   Michishita, Kazuya ^a   Takaoka, Hirokazu ^a   Ikenaka, Tatsuoh ^a   Komiya, Akiko ^a   Nakayama, Hisanori ^a   Hagiwara, Futoshi ^a   Sugii, Shoji ^a   Furukawa, Hiroshi ^a   Ozawa, Yoshinori ^a   Tohma, Shigeto ^a  

^a SAGAMIHARA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic meningitis; Depression; MRI; Rheumatoid arthritis; Rheumatoid meningitis

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; GADOLINIUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MILNACIPRAN; PAROXETINE; PIPERACILLIN; PREDNISOLONE; TEICOPLANIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COMA; DEPRESSION; DOSE RESPONSE; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFECTION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID LEPTOMENINGITIS; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOKINES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; PIA MATER; PREDNISOLONE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350037730     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-009-0186-9     Document Type: Article

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