Abstract: Results of PCP are well known in lupus nephritis. We present here it's outcome in patients with early stage of WH0 type IV lupus nephritis. The criteria for selection was a serum creatinine inferior to 1.3 mg/ 100 ml and a minimum follow up time of 18 months. 35 patients fulfilled the selection criteria. proteinuria, hematuria, leucocyturia, cast, BUN, creatinine, and blood pressure were measured before PCP and after each one. ...
Long-term outcome of pulse cyclophosphamide (PCP) in Behcet's disease (BD) ocular lesions.
Abstract: Since our first report in 1987 to the 11th EULAR congress of rheumatology several reports had shown the efficacy of PCP in posterior uveitis (PU) and retinal vasculitis (RV) of BD. The aim of this report is to show the safety and the efficacy of PCP even in patients who have been followed for more than 2 years (49 cases) . PCP was given as 1g/m2/body surface, once per month, ...
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 ...
Iran Behcet's Disease Dynamic Activity Measure (IBDDAM).
Abstract: The evaluation of the inflammatory state of Behcet`s Disease and it's quantification is most difficult. The difficulty is due to the recurrent attacks and spontaneous remissions that characterizes the disease. In IBDDAM the patients is evaluated on several weeks or months. Each attack is measured separately and given an index. The obtained indexes are added together and the total is divided by the number of months of the evaluation period. ...
Case report: Hypophosphatemic Osteomalacia in von Recklinghausen Neurofibromatosis.
Abstract: Skeletal lesions are not uncommon in von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis, Most of them are considered to be dysplastic in nature. Association of osteomalacia or rickets with neurofibromatosis has been documented only rarely. Reported herein is a 40-year-old woman with known von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis who presented with bone pain, multiple pseudofractures, marked increase in osteoid by bone biopsy, and hypophosphatemia with renal phosphate wasting. Treatment with oral phosphate and vitamin D ...
Weekly low-dose pulsed methotrexate in ocular Behcet (analysis of 41 cases).
Abstract: Cytotoxic drugs as the only remittent agents in posterior uveitis (PU) and/or retinal vasculitis (RV) of Aehcet's disease(BD) is generally accepted today. However which cytotoxic is the least harmful and yet efficient is questionable. The safety of long term use of MTX in rheumatoid arthritis made us to use this drug in ocular Behcet. Our prelimi-nary report to the first APLAR Symposium for Treatment of Rheumatic Diseases in Korea, stowed ...