Acute destruction of the hip joints and rapid resorption of femoral head in patients with rheumatoid arthritis |
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Authors: | Koichiro Yoshino Shigeki Momohara Katsunori Ikari Koichiro Kawamura Takeshi Mochizuki Takuji Iwamoto Yasuo Niki Seiji Saitou Taisuke Tomatsu |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 10-22 Kawada, Shinjuku, Tokyo 162-0054, Japan |
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Abstract: | We report three rheumatoid arthritis (RA) cases with acute destruction of hip joint and rapid resorption of femoral head.
The condition occurred in less than 6 months and closely resembled rapid destructive coxarthrosis. All three patients were
postmenopausal women with active RA who had been taking steroids. Two of the patients were taking prednisolone (PSL) of over
20 mg as maximum dose per day, and all patients were resistant to disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs). Other than
the problems of their hip joints, one had a giant bursitis around the pathological side of the hip joint, another had multiple
rheumatoid nodules and skin infarction, and the other suffered from insufficiency fracture of the contralateral femoral subcapital
lesion. As a result, all of them had total hip arthroplasty. We recommend taking repetitive radiographs for RA patients with
continuing severe hip pain. |
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Keywords: | Femoral head resorption Rapidly destructive coxarthrosis (RDC) Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) |
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