ISSN: 1300-0292
İndekslendiği Dizinler: SCIENCE CITATION INDEX EXPANDED
CINAHL, Index Copernicus,
Chemical Abstracts (CA),
Excerpta Medica / EMBASE
Dil: Türkçe, İngilizce
İçerik: Orijinal Araştırma, Derleme, Editöre Mektup, Olgu Sunumu, Tıp Eğitimi, Tıbbi Kitap İncelemeleri
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Rheumatoid Arthritis And Lyme Disease: A Case Report
Dr. Ali BORAZAN,a Dr. Erdem KOÇAK,a Dr. Gülay KOÇAK,a
Dr. Turan ARSLAN,b Dr. Yücel ÜSTÜNDAĞa
aİç Hastalıkları AD, bEnfeksiyon Hastalıkları AD, Zonguldak Karaelmas Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, ZONGULDAK
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and Lyme disease are two systemic illnesses with distinctly different clinical manifestations. Although Lyme arthritis is clearly distinct from RA, it can also cause joint erosion due to chronic proliferative synovitis. In the literature we found no case report in which RA and Lyme disease coexisted. In this article we present a 27 year-old woman who had undergone treatment for RA for the previous 6 years. Two months after this period, on the basis of symptoms and laboratory findings, the patient experienced what was initially diagnosed as RA activation. However, after tests were performed, Lyme disease was diagnosed. The patient was treated accordingly and successfully.Keywords: Arthritis, rheumatoid, Lyme diseaseTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Sci 2005, 25:736-739
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