Showing papers in "Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism in 1980"

TL;DR: An unusual cardiac manifestation is reported, a case of complete heart block, occurring during the active stage of Wegener granulomatosis, and the specific histopathologic findings and the pathophysiologic mechanisms are discussed.

TL;DR: The natural history of acute rheumatic fever in adults has been studied from an analysis of 23 patients together with a review of a further 466 published cases, finding anemia, hyperglobulinemia, urinary sediment, and hypercalcemia in 7 out of 12 cases.

TL;DR: Lymphoplasmapheresis appears to be the most effective form of pheresis in treating rheumatoid arthritis, and in treating less severe disease on a long-term basis, pheresIS has demonstrated excellent steroid sparing properties.

TL;DR: It is clear that the impact of the disturbance of uric acid metabolism has not placed a particular individual in a category with any significantly inherent greater risk from intimately or remotely related causes of morbidity or mortality.

TL;DR: It is clear that various microbial agents can cause acute and chronic rheumatic disease by several mechanisms, that different agents may cause the same disease in different patients, and that genetic factors are important, perhaps crucial, to this host response.