A Cherasse, J F Maillefert, J L Henlin, D Chassard, C Tavernier
{"title":"Tiopronin-induced myasthenia.","authors":"A Cherasse, J F Maillefert, J L Henlin, D Chassard, C Tavernier","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79371,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme (English ed.)","volume":"66 4","pages":"238-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21208300","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}
J M Berthelot, D Rodet, P Guillot, Y Laborie, Y Maugars, A Prost
{"title":"Is it possible to predict the efficacy at discharge of inhospital rheumatology department management of disk-related sciatica? A study in 150 patients.","authors":"J M Berthelot, D Rodet, P Guillot, Y Laborie, Y Maugars, A Prost","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To identify criteria for predicting the outcome at discharge in patients scheduled for inhospital treatment of disk-related sciatica.</p><p><strong>Patients and methods: </strong>We studied 150 rheumatology department patients admitted for disk-related sciatica with a mean duration of 88 +/- 127 days to determine the impact on treatment outcomes of 50 parameters.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>After complete bed and 2.2 +/- 1.1 epidural glucocorticoid injections during a mean hospital stay of 9.9 +/- 4.3 days, 80% of patients reported either complete or partial pain relief (19% and 61%, respectively). The remaining 20% reported little (9%) or no (11%) change. Surgery was performed in 13% of cases. A tighter straight-leg raising test angle was correlated with treatment failure (P = 0.01). Complete bed rest duration prior to admission was shorter in the 80% of responders (P = 0.036) than in the 20% of nonresponders; in the overall population, patients spent on average 64% +/- 33% of daytime hours in bed. Patient predictions about their own outcomes were unreliable (P = 0.926). Patients who believed strongly that sciatica requires surgical treatment were more likely to be nonresponders (P = 0.06), as were patients with a family history of surgically-treated sciatica (P = 0.055). Outcomes were not correlated with any of the other parameters studied, including sciatica duration (P = 0.13), bedrest duration prior to admission (P = 0.52; mean duration, 18 +/- 29 days), the specialty of the physicians seen, investigations done prior to admission, or a history of sciatica (noted in 65% of cases and treated surgically in 16%).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Eighty percent of patients benefited from their hospital stay. Patient opinions on the merits of nonsurgical and surgical treatments in their own case were not correlated with their own outcomes. A tight straight leg-raising test angle was correlated with a poorer outcome. Neither sciatica duration nor rest duration prior to admission had an influence on outcome. Absence of complete bed rest prior to admission was correlated with a greater likelihood of a therapeutic benefit from the hospital stay.</p>","PeriodicalId":79371,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme (English ed.)","volume":"66 4","pages":"207-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21208453","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}
{"title":"Shoulder pain in patients with Parkinson's disease.","authors":"N Vaserman-Lehuédé, M Vérin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79371,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme (English ed.)","volume":"66 4","pages":"220-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21208293","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}
D Dearaujomartins-Romeo, C Garcia-Porrua, M A Gonzalez-Gay
{"title":"Cutaneous vasculitis is not always benign.","authors":"D Dearaujomartins-Romeo, C Garcia-Porrua, M A Gonzalez-Gay","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79371,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme (English ed.)","volume":"66 4","pages":"240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21208301","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}
Y Carrillon, E Noel, O Fantino, O Perrin-Fayolle, V A Tran-Minh
{"title":"Magnetic resonance imaging findings in idiopathic adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder.","authors":"Y Carrillon, E Noel, O Fantino, O Perrin-Fayolle, V A Tran-Minh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To describe magnetic resonance imaging findings in idiopathic adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder.</p><p><strong>Patients and methods: </strong>Twenty patients with idiopathic adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder underwent magnetic resonance imaging involving two spin-echo T2-weighted sequences with fat saturation and two spin-echo T1-weighted postgadolinium sequences; for all sequences, sections were obtained in the oblique coronal and transverse axial planes. Findings were compared to those obtained using the same imaging protocol in 15 patients with clinical manifestations of rotator cuff tear.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Postgadolinium enhancement of the joint capsule and synovial membrane was seen in the rotator interval in all 25 adhesive capsulitis patients and in the axillary recess in 22 of the 25. Only one of the 15 rotator cuff tear patients had this finding. In both groups, postgadolinium enhancement occurred in the subacromial bursa, in the rotator cuff tendons, and in the acromioclavicular joint. No significant rotator cuff tears were found in any of the adhesive capsulitis patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In difficult cases, magnetic resonance imaging with gadolinium injection can contribute to the diagnosis of idiopathic adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder.</p>","PeriodicalId":79371,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme (English ed.)","volume":"66 4","pages":"201-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21208452","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}
B Thomachot, V Daumen-Legre, T Pham, P C Acquaviva, P Lafforgue
{"title":"Fibrous dysplasia with intramuscular myxoma (Mazabraud's syndrome). Report of a case and review of the literature.","authors":"B Thomachot, V Daumen-Legre, T Pham, P C Acquaviva, P Lafforgue","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>About 30 cases of fibrous dysplasia associated with one or more myxomas (Mazabraud's syndrome) have been reported since 1926. We report a new case in a woman with polyostotic fibrous dysplasia and a myxoma in the left femoral muscle. She also had a history of precocious sexual development and café au lait spots, two manifestations whose association with polyostotic fibrous dysplasia defines McCune-Albright syndrome.</p>","PeriodicalId":79371,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme (English ed.)","volume":"66 3","pages":"180-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21197809","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}
P Blanco, T Schaeverbeke, L Baillet, L Lequen, B Bannwarth, J Dehais
{"title":"Chondrosarcoma in a patient with McCune-Albright syndrome. Report of a case.","authors":"P Blanco, T Schaeverbeke, L Baillet, L Lequen, B Bannwarth, J Dehais","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A case of McCune-Albright syndrome with acromegaly and chrondrosarcoma is reported. The potential role of chronic growth hormone overproduction in the occurrence of malignant transformation and the possible value of bisphosphonates in the treatment of bone fibrous dysplasias are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":79371,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme (English ed.)","volume":"66 3","pages":"177-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21197808","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}
{"title":"Femorocoxometry: angles and segments characteristic of dysplastic and dysmorphic hip conditions in adult. Measurement using a femorocoxometer for standard or reduced (digitized) films.","authors":"M G Lequesne","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>I have designed a new measurement instrument drawn on transparent film and suitable for any hip radiograph. It replaces the femorocoxometer first produced in France in 1963 and is intended to assist in the evaluation of hip dysplasia and subluxation, as well as of other developmental or acquired abnormalities of the hip. A new design was needed to obtain an instrument suitable not only for conventional radiographs but also for the new reduced-sized images frequently obtained today. Angles can be measured on films of the pelvis and on films of the hip taken in the standing position. Several millimeter-graduated segments have been added to the new version of the instrument to allow measurement of six distances characteristic of the development of hip dysplasia or subluxation. The instrument permits measurement of all the angles related to the architecture of the radiographic hip in the three planes, coronal (CE or VCE, HTE, and NSA angles), anteroposterior (VCA angle), and cross-sectional (femoral neck anteversion). All the parameters are described and illustrated. For each of them, the directions for use of the instrument are given step by step. A number of difficult or ambiguous measurements are discussed, and relevant recommendations are made. A table reports the classical values allowing to distinguish between the dysplastic and the normal hip.</p>","PeriodicalId":79371,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme (English ed.)","volume":"66 3","pages":"136-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21197219","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}