| Literature DB >> 2610804 |
D F McGeehan1, J N Crinnion, D R Strachan.
Abstract
A case of a female patient with extensive rheumatoid arthritis who presented to the Accident and Emergency Department with life-threatening stridor is described. Although clinical involvement of the larynx is found in over a third of patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis, acute airways obstruction is fortunately a very rare complication. Stridor is probably precipitated in the acute situation in such patients as a result of upper respiratory tract infection.Entities:
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Year: 1989 PMID： 2610804 PMCID： PMC1285630 DOI： 10.1136/emj.6.4.274
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Arch Emerg Med ISSN： 0264-4924