Sicca symptoms are associated with similar fatigue, anxiety, depression, and quality-of-life impairments in patients with and without primary Sjögren's syndrome

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Calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) in a liver transplant patient: are hypomagnesemia, tacrolimus or both guilty? A case-based literature review

International audienceCalcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) can be induced by a persistent hypomagnesemia. Tacrolimus is an immunosuppressive treatment especially used in organ transplant, potentially inducer of hypomagnesemia by renal loss. A 53-year-old man, liver transplant 10 months earlier, developed an acute peripheral oligoarthritis of wrist, hip and elbow with fever, associated with acute low back pain. Synovial fluid was sterile, and revealed calcium pyrophosphate crystals. Spinal imaging showed inflammatory changes. Magnesium blood level was low at 0.51 mmol/l, with high fractional excretion in favor of renal loss. Tacrolimus was changed for everolimus, proton pump inhibitor was stopped, and magnesium oral supplementation was started. After 8 months follow-up and slow prednisone tapering, he did not relapse pain. Persistent hypomagnesemia is a rare secondary cause of CPPD. In this entity, drug liability should be investigated such as tacrolimus in organ transplant patient

Eosinophilia predicts poor clinical outcomes in recent-onset arthritis: results from the ESPOIR cohort.

International audienceTo determine the prevalence of eosinophilia in patients with recent-onset arthritis suggestive of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to describe their features and outcomes.We performed an ancillary study of data from a French prospective multicentre cohort study monitoring clinical, laboratory and radiographic data in patients with inflammatory arthritis of 6 weeks to 6 months duration. We determined the proportion of patients with eosinophilia, defined as a count >500/mm(3), at baseline and after 3 years. Features of patients with and without baseline eosinophilia were compared.Baseline eosinophilia was evidenced in 26 of 804 (3.2%) patients; their mean eosinophil count was 637.7±107/mm(3). Baseline eosinophilia was ascribed to atopic syndrome in 6 of 26 (23.1%) patients. After 3 years, patients with eosinophilia had higher Health Assessment Questionnaire scores (0.9 vs 0.5, p=0.004), higher patient visual analogue scale activity score and morning stiffness intensity (p=0.05), and were more often taking disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (p=0.02). Baseline eosinophilia was not associated with presence of extra-articular manifestations.Eosinophilia is rare in recent-onset arthritis suggestive of RA, and is usually directly related to the rheumatic disease. Our data suggest that patients with mild eosinophilia at diagnosis could respond worse to the treatment than those without

A simplified radiographic score effectively predicts radiographic progression of early arthritis in a large nationwide French cohort

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Multireader assessment as an alternative to reference assessment to improve the detection of radiographic progression in a large longitudinal cohort of rheumatoid arthritis (ESPOIR)

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