2001 issue 2

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Volume 10, issue 2

Systemic connective tissue diseases

Transient myelopathy in a case of nondestructive polinodular rheumatoid arthritis – coincidence or a particular clinical syndrome?

ANNA SZCZEPAŃSKA-SZEREJ1, TOMASZ HASIEC1, ZBIGNIEW STELMASIAK1, LESZEK SZCZEPAŃSKI2, MARIUSZ PIOTROWSKI2
1. Katedry i Kliniki Neurologii Akademii Medycznej w Lublinie
2. Kliniki Reumatologii Akademii Medycznej w Lublinie
Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii, 2001, 10, 167-171
Keywords: rheumatoid arthritis, myelopathy

Abstract

A case of a 58-year-old woman with pseudo-SLA myelopathy associated with the onset of atypical rheumatoid arthritis is reported. No compressive lesions were seen in the spinal canal in spine X-ray, CT, and MRI scans. The treatment with predonisolone and metotrexate was followed by an improvement of the patient's neurological state. This may suggest that her spinal myelopathy was caused by an inflammatory-autoimmunological process.

Address for correspondence:
Dr Anna Szczepańska-Szerej,
Katedra i Klinika Neurologii Akademii Medycznej,
ul. Jaczewskiego 8,
20-954 Lublin