Abstract: Purpose: Polymyositis (PM) is an inflammatory muscle disease, which has more overlap with scleroderma than other connective tissue diseases. The aim of this study is to compare the clinical, paraclinical and therapeutic response of polymyositis with polymyositis-scleroderma overlap syndrome. Methods: During the past 10 years we had 16 overlap syndromes and 40 primary polymyositis. All patients were classified by the American college of Rheumatology classification criteria. Ninety-seven items were checked in ...
Lupus Nephritis in Iran. Analysis of 287 cases.
Abstract: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a rather frequent disease in Iran. In the past 13 years, 449 patients with SLE attended the SLE clinic. Lupus nephritis was discovered in 278 of them. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the caracteristics of lupus nephritis in Iran (percentage of proteinuria, hematuria, leucocyturia, casts, renal insufficiency, hypertension, and patterns of renal biopsy), to compare them to the remaining patients with SLE ...