| Literature DB >> 19812889 |
Keita Fujikawa1, Atsushi Kawakami, Tomayoshi Hayashi, Naoki Iwamoto, Shin-ya Kawashiri, Toshiyuki Aramaki, Kunihiro Ichinose, Mami Tamai, Kazuhiko Arima, Makoto Kamachi, Satoshi Yamasaki, Hideki Nakamura, Hiroaki Ida, Tomoki Origuchi, Katsumi Eguchi.
Abstract
We describe 3 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) therapy-induced cutaneous vasculitis. Two cases were induced by infliximab and the other, in whom cutaneous vasculitis was found early at the start of therapy, was induced by etanercept. Skin biopsy was obtained in 2 patients, with histology-proven leukocytoclastic vasculitis. One patient spontaneously improved after cessation of the TNF inhibitor. Two patients required oral corticosteroid, the efficacy of which was observed to be excellent and rapid.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID： 19812889 DOI： 10.1007/s10165-009-0232-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mod Rheumatol ISSN： 1439-7595 Impact factor: 3.023