The Journal of the Korean Rheumatism Association  2000;7(3):268-273

A Case of Inflammatory Arthritis in the Myelodysplastic Syndrome.

Ji Hyun LEE 1 ; Dae Hyun YOO ; Yoon Ho CHUNG ; Wan Sik UHM ; Tae Hwan KIM ; Jae Bum JUN ; Sung Soo JUNG ; In Hong LEE ; Sang Cheol BAE ; In Soon KIM ; Hee Kwan KOH ; Kyung Bin JOO ; Seong Yoon KIM

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Keywords

Myelodysplastic syndrome; Inflammatory arthritis

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

The myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a heterogeneous group of refractory anemia resulting from a clonal abnormality in the pleuripotent stem cell. A variety of immunologic abnormalities have been reported in patients with MDS, and various rheumatic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Sjogren? syndrome, vasculitis, have been reported in association with MDS. Inflammatory arthritis is a rare complication of MDS. Here we report a patient with refractory anemia with excess blasts with unusual manifestation of inflammatory arthritis, with a review of the literature.