Adult-onset Still's disease complicated by hypercalcaemia: possible relationship with rapidly destructive polyarthritis.
A 34-year-old man with adult-onset Still's disease developed a striking hypercalcaemia during a rapidly destructive polyarthritis with extensive osteoporosis. The hypercalcaemia seemed to be primarily caused by inflammation-induced bone resorption. On prednisone the polyarthritis went into remission and the plasma calcium levels became normal. Other remarkable features in this case were a subluxation of the atlantoaxial joint, a brain-stem haemorrhage, transient hyperuricaemia and hyperuricosuria, and urolithiasis.
D000328:Adult; D001168:Arthritis / Q000150:complications; D001171:Arthritis, Juvenile / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications*; D002118:Calcium / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications
D002118:Calcium