著者
Shinsuke TAMURA Tetsuhiro KOREEDA Takashi NAKANO Toshikazu HADA Kazuya HIGASHINO
出版者
The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
雑誌
Japanese Journal of Medicine (ISSN:00215120)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.29, no.6, pp.611-615, 1990 (Released:2006-03-27)
参考文献数
6
被引用文献数
2 2

A 53-year-old previously healthy woman suddenly developed adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) of unknown etiology. High-dose corticosteroid pulse therapy and artificial ventilation were started immediately and she dramatically responded to the treatment. However, soon after recovery from ARDS, she developed typical rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Although no apparent relationship between RA and ARDS was clear, this case is quite suggestive in the consideration of the etiology of ARDS.