syndrome de Raynaudtraitement médicalThe authors review the drug treatment of Raynaud's disease. Many substances have been used including nitrate derivatives, calcium antagonists, alphablockers, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, prostaglandin E1, E2 and 12, and ketanserine. The efficacy of these...
Raynaud (syndrome de)In a 43-year old male suffering from idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) since 1984, successfully treated with alfa interferon (伪IFN) for 32 months, a severe Raynaud's phenomenon of the four extremities occured and eventually evolved into digital necrosis within a ...
Purpose. – Antisynthetase syndrome (AS) is frequently revealed by interstitial lung disease and arthritis. There are mechanic's hand, Raynaud's phenomenon and anti aminoacyl t-RNA synthetase antibodies. The anti JO-1 antibody is the most frequently identified . We report five cases of anti...
– CREST syndrome (calcinosis, Raynaud’s phenomenon, oesophageal involvement, sclerodactyly and telangiectasia) was more frequent in patients with isolated pulmonary hypertension than in patients without PH (72.7% vs 28.5%, P < 0.05; odds-ratio OR = 6.6) and dyspnea was more severe...
One patient had iatrogenic antisynthetase syndrome characterized by mechanic's hand, Raynaud's phenomenon and anti JO1 antibodies. One other had sclerodermic hand oedema. Antinuclear antibodies were positive in 4 cases and muscle biopsy revealed polymyositis infiltrate in 4 cases. CLD treatment was ...