Professional paper

Vasculitis in rheumatoid arthrtis - case report

Domagoj Vergles ; Department for Abdominal Surgery, Clinic for Surgery, Clinical Hospital “Dubrava”, Zagreb, Croatia
Melanie-Ivana Čulo ; Department for Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Clinic for Internal Medicine, Clinical Hospital “Dubrava”, Zagreb, Croatia
Željko Đurašević ; Department for Cardiovascular Diseases, Clinic for Internal Medicine, Clinical Hospital “Dubrava”, Zagreb, Croatia
Dragica Soldo-Jureša ; Department for Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Clinic for Internal Medicine, Clinical Hospital “Dubrava”, Zagreb, Croatia
Krešimir Galešić ; Department for Nephrology, Clinic for Internal Medicine, Clinical Hospital “Dubrava”, Zagreb, Croatia
Jadranka Morović-Vergles ; Department for Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Clinic for Internal Medicine, Clinical Hospital “Dubrava”, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The presence of positive rheumatoid factor (RF) titer in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is of clinical value because its presence tends to correlate with the development of extraarticular manifestations. There is a loose correlation with severity of disease and titer. Extraarticular manifestations includes vasculitis, pericarditis, subcutaneous nodules, pulmonary nodules or interstitial fibrosis, episcleritis and mononeuritis multiplex. The vasculitis is most frequently evidenced as skin infarctions/ulcerations and mononeuritis multiplex. We report a case of rheumatoid vasculitis in a 48 years old women with long history of RA, who developed vasculitis of distal arteries with gangrene of digits of upper and lower extremities.

Keywords

vasculitis; rheumatoid arthritis; rheumatoid factor

Hrčak ID:

125885

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/125885

Publication date:

1.7.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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