Isolated cerebral vasculitis associated with rheumatoid arthritis

Joint Bone Spine

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 361-363

  Caballol Pons, Núria ^a   Montalà, Núria ^b   Valverde, José ^c   Brell, Marta ^c   Ferrer, Isidre ^c   Martínez Yélamos, Sergio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DOS DE MAIG   (Spain)

^b Hospital Santa Maria   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Central nervous system, pathology; Rheumatoid, complications; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; ANGIOTENSIN CONVERTING ENZYME 2; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; GADOLINIUM; HEMOGLOBIN; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; CORTICOSTEROID;

AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VASCULITIS; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CHOLURIA; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSARTHRIA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NECROTIZING ARTERITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID NODULE; THALAMUS; COMPLICATION; DOSE RESPONSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 77954621150     PISSN: 1297319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2010.02.030     Document Type: Article

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