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Further evidence for plasmapheresis

Author(s) -

Hylland Robert G.

Publication year - 1980

Publication title -

arthritis & rheumatism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1529-0131

pISSN - 0004-3591

DOI - 10.1002/art.1780230128

Subject(s) - plasmapheresis , citation , unit (ring theory) , arthritis , medicine , library science , classics , psychology , computer science , history , mathematics education , immunology , antibody

both patients had a long course of synovitis which required antiinflammatory drugs to resolve. These two cases lend support to the hypothesis that calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystals previously deposited in the cartilage are released during the acute infection by hydrolytic enzymes that digest cartilage matrix, causing a crystal induced synovitis (2). A similar process may occur with uric acid crystals. Careful synovial fluid analysis late in the course of a septic arthritis by use of polarizing light microscopy may reveal similar cases and thus support this hypothesis.

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