[Disease-modifying factors in chronic polyarthritis. Correlations amongsystemic vasculitis, secondary amyloidosis, septic infections and occurrence of miliary epitheloid-cell granuloma. A review of autopsies].
The following findings were obtained from autopsies performed on 169 deceased with chronic polyarthritis (CP): systemic vasculitis in 26 cases (15.4%), systemic secondary amyloidosis in 32 cases (18.9%), sepsis in 13 cases (7.7%) and miliary epithelioid-cell granulomatosis (probably tuberculosis) in six cases (3.6%). Vasculitis was combined with amyloidosis in five patients, with sepsis in two and with miliary epithelioid-cell granulomatosis in four. Critical random check, using the Mann-Whitney test, did not support significance of relationship between vasculitis and amyloidosis or fatal sepsis, whereas significant correlations were found to exist in CP cases between vasculitis and miliary epithelioid-cell granulomatosis (P < 0.005). The latter had no effect on the severity of vasculitis, but the incidence of the granulomatous type of vasculitis was higher with significance (P < 0.02). The conclusion is that biopsy evidence of granulomatous vasculitis in CP patients should be followed by systematic clinical search for miliary tuberculosis because of above-average incidence of that combination.
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Landesinstitut für Rheumatologie Budapest, Ungarn.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D001168:Arthritis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D001344:Autopsy; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*
Krankheitsmodifizierende Faktoren bei chronischer Polyarthritis. Uber Zusammenhänge zwischen generalisierter Vaskulitis, sekundärer Amyloidose, septischen Infektionen und Auftreten von miliaren epitheloidzelligen Granulomen. Eine Untersuchung am Autopsiegut.