Polymyalgia rheumatica and rheumatoid arthritis: a prodromal or overlap syndrome?
Seven patients seen over an eight-year period and drawn from a population of approximately one million are described, who presented with unequivocal polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and developed sero-positive, erosive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) within a year. Two of the patients were confirmed as having temporal arteritis (TA). The association of PMR and RA is discussed.
D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011111:Polymyalgia Rheumatica / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013577:Syndrome; D013997:Time Factors