ReumatizamPub Date : 2020-12-12DOI: 10.33004/reumatizam-66-2-11
{"title":"PANDAS: DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC CHALLENGES, CASE REPORT, AND LITERATURE REVIEW","authors":"","doi":"10.33004/reumatizam-66-2-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33004/reumatizam-66-2-11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76426,"journal":{"name":"Reumatizam","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47349260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ReumatizamPub Date : 2020-12-12DOI: 10.33004//reumatizam-66-2-7
Ivana Vlak, I. Simundza, T. Vlak, Jure Aljinović, I. Barišić
{"title":"Comparison of radiographic and ultrasonographic features of painful shoulder in rheumatoid arthritis in relation to painful shoulder of non-inflammatory cause","authors":"Ivana Vlak, I. Simundza, T. Vlak, Jure Aljinović, I. Barišić","doi":"10.33004//reumatizam-66-2-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33004//reumatizam-66-2-7","url":null,"abstract":"painful shoulder is an important public health problem present in various population groups, both the young as well as the elderly. patients with rheumatoid arthritis (ra) and patients with non-inflammatory painful shoulder are two representative groups. The aim of this study was to estimate the differences in morphological parameters between the two patient groups and a possible predomination of one over the other. in 40 patients with ra both shoulders, and in 80 patients with non-inflammatory painful shoulders one shoulder, were radiographically and sonographically examined and the morphological parameters were compared. The patients with ra had a greater diameter of the biceps tendon sheath and the capsule-bone distance. more patients with ra had effusion of the biceps tendon sheath, subacromial-subdeltoid bursal effusion, and diffuse osteopenia. There were no differences between the groups in parameters usually associated with painful shoulder of non-inflammatory cause such as rotator cuff calcifications, supraspinatus tendon inhomogeneity, rotator cuff partial and total thickness tears, glenohumeral and acromioclavicular osteoarthrosis, large tuberculum sclerosis, and subacromial osteophytes. patients with ra were then divided in two groups, the first involving patients with biceps tendon sheath effusion and subacromial-subdeltoid bursal effusion, and the second comprising patients without those symptoms. There was no significant difference among the parameters of painful shoulder in the second group and the parameters of non-inflammatory painful shoulder. despite a significant difference in some parameters between the groups, the ra patients showed many parameters associated with noninflammatory painful shoulder. They are obviously not “protected” against other intrinsic and extrinsic factors affectReumatizam 2019;66(2):53–63 https://doi.org/10.33004/reumatizam-66-2-7 OriginAl scienTific PAPer OriginAlni znAnsTVeni rAd","PeriodicalId":76426,"journal":{"name":"Reumatizam","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47612766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ReumatizamPub Date : 2020-12-12DOI: 10.33004/reumatizam-66-2-10
K. Borić, M. Meter
{"title":"Giant cell arteritis in a patient with bilateral parotid swelling as the first sign of the disease: a case report","authors":"K. Borić, M. Meter","doi":"10.33004/reumatizam-66-2-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33004/reumatizam-66-2-10","url":null,"abstract":"We report a case of a patient with vision loss, whose diagnosis of temporal arteritis was confirmed by temporal artery biopsy. The patient presented with bilateral parotid swelling, amaurosis fugax, jaw claudication, and then headache. after the introduction of glucocorticoid therapy, the symptoms of the disease subsided, but there was a permanent loss of vision in one eye. This case indicates that it is important to consider temporal arteritis as a differential diagnosis in patients older than 50 with amaurosis fugax or other atypical symptoms that may precede the headache. a multidisciplinary approach involving neurologist, otorhinolaryngologist, infectiologist, ophthalmologist, and rheuma-tologist is key to early diagnosis and start of appropriate treatment that reduces the risk of permanent vision loss.","PeriodicalId":76426,"journal":{"name":"Reumatizam","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44897841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ReumatizamPub Date : 2020-12-12DOI: 10.33004/reumatizam-66-2-9
marina Vukčević, Boris Prodanović
{"title":"Atypical presentation of antisynthetase syndrome – case report","authors":"marina Vukčević, Boris Prodanović","doi":"10.33004/reumatizam-66-2-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33004/reumatizam-66-2-9","url":null,"abstract":"Anti-synthetase syndrome is an autoimmune disease characterized by myositis and interstitial lung disease. in this paper we report on a middle-aged male patient with an uncommon anti-synthetase syndrome, presenting with pulmonary manifestation before myositis. it is important to identify these patients, because early diagnosis and appropriate treatment are essential for optimal care.","PeriodicalId":76426,"journal":{"name":"Reumatizam","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45793590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ReumatizamPub Date : 2020-02-10DOI: 10.32388/rkq6tf
I. Krajnc
{"title":"[Reactive arthritis].","authors":"I. Krajnc","doi":"10.32388/rkq6tf","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32388/rkq6tf","url":null,"abstract":"In most cases, reactive arthritis occurs after urogenital and gastrointestinal infections. Anamnesis, clinical picture, antigen HLA-B27 determination and serologic antibody ascertainment are of essential importance to the diagnosis. The therapeutic value of antibiotics is questionable, owing above all to the fact that in chlamydia-induced arthritis the causative agent was found in the intraarticular biopsy specimen. The prognosis of the disease is favourable although relapses are frequent. Especially Reiter's disease may have a chronic course.","PeriodicalId":76426,"journal":{"name":"Reumatizam","volume":"40 2 1","pages":"7-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47538940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}