Author/Editor		Krajnc, I
Title		Anti-Jo-1-positive Polymyositis mit interstitieller Alveolitis und Perikarderguss: Uberblick einer 3jahrigen Behandlung
Translated title		Anti-Jo-1-positive polymyositis with interstitial alveolitis and pericardial effusion: overview of 3 years treatment
Type		članek
Source		Wien Klin Wochenschr
Vol. and No.		Letnik 107, št. 19
Publication year		1995
Volume		str. 590-2
Language		ger
Abstract		We describe the case of a 53-year-old woman who developed polymyositis with extramuscular complications: interstitional lung fibrosis, pericarditis and a pericardial effusion, polyarthritis, Raynaud's syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome, sclerodactylia and positive anti-Jo-1-antibodies. We treated her for 3 years. Pericarditis and pericardial effusion with a fibrosing lung alveolitis were the first clinical manifestations of positive Jo-1-syndrome. We stress the patient's serious cardiac disease accompanied by pericardial effusion, which has seldom been described in specialist articles. Steroid treatment induced remission of the disease, but the Jo-1-antibodies did not disappear from the patient's serum.
Descriptors		ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES PERICARDIAL EFFUSION POLYMYOSITIS PREDNISOLONE PULMONARY FIBROSIS AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE ENGLISH ABSTRACT FOLLOW-UP STUDIES MIDDLE AGE PERICARDIAL EFFUSION POLYMYOSITIS PULMONARY FIBROSIS