تالیفات

Abstract: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a known underlying disease predisposing to salmonellosis. We report here 39 cases of salmonellosis in 30 patients in a population of 897 patients with SLE, during a 17 years period. All were women with a mean age of 25.7 years. Eighty percent were taking prednisolone and 26% cytotoxics at the onset of the infection. Renal involvement was present in 77% (type IV WHO in 65% ...

Abstract: Behcet Disease (BD) is known to involve nervous system. In order to evaluate the prevalence of neurological complications as early manifestations of BD, and to determine their value as indicators of the disease, we conducted a prospective study on 261 consecutive patients reffered to our BD clinic (100 control subjects and 161 BD patients), including a Questionaire about neurological symptoms, complete physical (neruological) examination, and paraclinicalstudies, No definite (significant) difference ...

Abstract: Pulse cyclophosphamide (PCP) is the most effective and the least toxic treatment in posterior uveitis (pU) and/or re­tinal vasculitis (RV) of Behcet's disease (BD). Conventional doses (1 g/m2) may be associated with minor side effects such as hair loss, nausea and vomiting. To find whether lower doses, such as those already employed in Lupus nephritis should be useful, we administered IVLDP (0.5 g/m2/month) plus prednisolone (0.5 mg/kg/day) to 40 BD ...

Abstract: It is accepted today that cytotoxic drugs are the only re­mittent agents in posterior uveitis (PU) and retinal vasculitis (RV) of Behcet's disease (BD). The important question is which cytotoxic is the most effective and the least harmful. We compare here the results of 3 efficient methods of cyto­toxic therapy with the same mean follow-up time of 12 months: I.V. Pulse Cyclophosphamide (PCP) in 121 patients, weekly low dose Methotrexate ...

Abstract: CHILBLAIN LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS IN A MONOLYGOTE TWIN.#C. Chams, M. Akbarian, P. Mansoori, F. Shahram, and F. Davatchi#Revista Espanola de Reumatologia, 1993; 20 (Suppl 1): p. 358 #Chilblain lupus erythematosus or lupus pernio was described by HUTCHINSON in 1888. Even actually it is difficult to put this entity in a well defined nosologic place as systemic lupus erythematosus. We report here the case of a twin monozygote brothers of 11 years old, ...

Abstract: Behcet's disease (BD) is not rare in children, and it's clini­cal picture differs from that in adults. We studied 66 patients in whom the disease was diagnosed under the age 16 from a population of 2068 BD patients. Comparison of the results with the adults by the student paired t test showed: although the most frequent initial manifestation of BD in children was oral aphthosis (54.5%), it was less frequent ...

Abstract: There is only three reports on the frequency of audio ves­tibular involvement in BD in the literature. In these studies, done in small population of BD patients, the frequency of auditory involvement were reported as high as 60%, and the vestibular involvement between 25 to 37%. We studied pros­pectively the audio vestibular involvement in 80 patients with BD, and compared them with 102 controls (CG) includ­ing hospital staffs, patients with ...

Abstract: An increased rate of infection among SLE patients has long been reported from western countries. In a retrospective study in 893 patients, we analyzed 203 cases who had one or more episodes of infection between 1974 and 1992. Among them 181 were females and 22 were males (89% female) . The diagnosis of infection was established by both clinical and laboratory findings. Almost more than half of the infections were ...