Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis appearing after hepatitis. Causal or casual relationship
Amadori, G.; Milano, A.; Adami, F.; Casonato, A.; Gasparotto, G.
Minerva Medica 71(21): 1507-1514
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4806 PMID: 7383409 Document Number: 167932
High fever, spleen and lymph node enlargement, and joint pains that assumed the character of rheumatoid arthritis in the ensuing months were noted after a viral hepatitis episode in a 21-year-old woman. Serious anaemia and myocarditis also appeared when the picture was at its worst. A lymphoma was suspected, and the spleen and some abdominal lymph nodes were removed. These displayed signs of intense follicular reaction unaccompanied by atypia. The possibility that juvenile rheumatoid arthritis may be triggered by hepatitis is examined.