Peripheral neuritis associated with rheumatoid arthritis

✍ Scribed by Robert Irby; Raymond A. Adams; Elam C. Toone Jr.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1958
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 609 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3591
• DOI: 10.1002/art.1780010107

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Involvement of peripheral nerves has, thus far, received too little attention as a systemic manifestation of rheumatoid disease. This article describes peripheral neuropathy in six patients with rheumatoid arthritis, all of whom were receiving or had received adrenal steroid therapy. Histologic studies revealed diffuse angiitis and suggested that vascular involvement of the nerve trunk contributed to the pathogenesis of the neuropathy.

Le affection de nervos peripheric como manifestation de morbo rheumatoide non ha, usque nunc, habite le attention que illo merita. Iste articulo describe neuropathia peripheric in sex patientes con arthritis rheumatoide qui omnes recipeva o habeva recipite therapia adreno‐steroide. Studios histologic rvelava diffuse angiitis e suggereva que un affection vascular del trunco nervose contribueva al pathogenese del neuropathia.