- 著者
- Hajime Yoshifuji Yoshikazu Nakaoka Haruhito A. Uchida Takahiko Sugihara Yoshiko Watanabe Sohei Funakoshi Mitsuaki Isobe Masayoshi Harigai Japan Research Committee of the Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare for Intractable Vasculitis (JPVAS)
- 出版者
- The Japanese Circulation Society
- 雑誌
- Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.CJ-23-0656, (Released:2023-12-19)
- 参考文献数
- 34
- 被引用文献数
- 1
Background: Takayasu arteritis, affecting primarily young women, damages large arteries and organs. We examined the impact of disease duration and sex on organ damage and quality of life using Japan’s Intractable Disease Registry.Methods and Results: After refining data, 2,013 of 2,795 patients were included in the study. Longer disease duration was related to a lower prevalence of disease activity symptoms, a higher prevalence of organ damage, and a higher proportion of patients requiring nursing care. Compared with men, women tended to have an earlier onset age, exhibiting longer disease duration. A higher proportion of women had aortic regurgitation and required nursing care. The proportion of female patients in employment was lower than that of the general female population, whereas no difference was observed between male patients and the general male population. Logistic regression analysis revealed that age at surveillance, brain ischemia, visual impairment/loss, and ischemic heart disease were significant factors associated with high nursing care needs (Level ≥2, with daily activity limitations).Conclusions: Early diagnosis and effective treatment, particularly to prevent brain ischemia, visual impairment, and ischemic heart disease, may improve the quality of life of patients with Takayasu arteritis, especially women.
- 著者
- Mitsuaki Isobe Koichi Amano Yoshihiro Arimura Akihiro Ishizu Shuichi Ito Shinya Kaname Shigeto Kobayashi Yoshinori Komagata Issei Komuro Kimihiro Komori Kei Takahashi Kazuo Tanemoto Hitoshi Hasegawa Masayoshi Harigai Shouichi Fujimoto Tatsuhiko Miyazaki Tetsuro Miyata Hidehiro Yamada Akitoshi Yoshida Takashi Wada Yoshinori Inoue Haruhito A. Uchida Hideki Ota Takahiro Okazaki Mitsuho Onimaru Tamihiro Kawakami Reiko Kinouchi Atsushi Kurata Hisanori Kosuge Ken-ei Sada Kunihiro Shigematsu Eiichi Suematsu Eijun Sueyoshi Takahiko Sugihara Hitoshi Sugiyama Mitsuhiro Takeno Naoto Tamura Michi Tsutsumino Hiroaki Dobashi Yoshikazu Nakaoka Kenji Nagasaka Yasuhiro Maejima Hajime Yoshifuji Yoshiko Watanabe Shoichi Ozaki Takeshi Kimura Hiroshi Shigematsu Keiko Yamauchi-Takihara Toyoaki Murohara Shin-ichi Momomura on behalf of the JCS Joint Working Group
- 出版者
- The Japanese Circulation Society
- 雑誌
- Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.84, no.2, pp.299-359, 2020-01-24 (Released:2020-01-24)
- 参考文献数
- 368
- 被引用文献数
- 3 54
- 著者
- Toshiki Nakajima Daisuke Kawabata Shuichiro Nakabo Aya Miyagawa-Hayashino Naoichiro Yukawa Hajime Yoshifuji Koichiro Ohmura Takao Fujii Tsuneyo Mimori
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 日本内科学会
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.53, no.19, pp.2255-2258, 2014 (Released:2014-10-01)
- 参考文献数
- 15
- 被引用文献数
- 3 11
A 75-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) presented with long-term painful erythema on the right upper arm and left elbow. The patient was diagnosed with intralymphatic histiocytosis (ILH) based on the biopsy findings. Because the patient was unresponsive to single-agent treatment with methotrexate, infliximab and etanercept, we switched to tocilizumab (TCZ) treatment, which induced remission of the ILH. Our case suggests that TCZ may be a treatment option for ILH in patients with RA.