Juvenile dermatomyositis: clinical, laboratorial, histological, therapeutical and evolutive parameters of 35 patients
Juvenile dermatomyositis: clinical, laboratorial, histological, therapeutical and evolutive parameters of 35 patients
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DOI:
10.1590/s0004-282x2002000600001
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发表时间:
2002-12-01
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
Marie, Suely Kazue Nagahashi
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作者:
Sallum, Adriana Maluf Elias;Kiss, Maria Helena Bittencurt;Marie, Suely Kazue Nagahashi
This study was based on a prospective and a retrospective analysis of 35 patients who met Bohan and Peter criteria for juvenile dermatomyositis diagnosis. The mean follow-up time was three years ten months. Calcinosis was present in five (14.28%) patients, cutaneous ulcers in four (11.42%), and systemic involvement in nine (27.71%) patients. All patients presented alterations in the serum levels of muscle enzymes, and all of them were submitted to muscle biopsy as a diagnostic procedure. Nine (25.71 %) patients received corticotherapy prior to and 26 (74.28%) after the muscle biopsy. Chloroquine, methotrexate, cyclosporine, cyclophosphamide and intravenous immunoglobulin were used in patients with poor response to corticotherapy. Continuation of cutaneous manifestations was observed in 4 (11.43%) patients, laboratorial activity in 1 (2.85%), cutaneous and laboratorial activities in 3 (8.57%). Ten (28.57%) patients were out of activity, and 17 (48.57%) in remission at study end-point, on March 2002. Two (5.71%) patients died.