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We report a 60-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis complicated by pericarditis. Treatment with tocilizumab improved her polyarthritis, but the pericardial effusion increased so rapidly as to cause cardiac tamponade before the treatment could prove its efficacy. Pericardial effusion disappeared after pericardiocentesis. The pericardial fluid contained a remarkably high concentration of interleukin-6...
Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a rheumatoid disorder characterized by high fever, polyarthritis, leukocytosis, hyperferritinaemia, and mild liver involvement. We describe the case of a patient with AOSD with severe liver dysfunction. His serum levels of interleukin-10 and 18 showed a similar trend to his disease activity. Drug lymphocyte stimulation tests were positive for three drugs in the...
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