Park Mi Jeong, Kim Yun A, Lee Shin Seok, Kim Byeong Chae, Kim Myeong Kyu, Cho Ki Hyun
Departments of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, 5 Hak-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju 501-190, Korea.
J Korean Med Sci. 2004 Feb;19(1):134-6. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2004.19.1.134.
We report two cases of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in myasthenia gravis (MG) patients who had undergone thymectomy. SLE developed in the patients 3 months or 13 yr after thymectomy, and polyarthritis was the main clinical manifestation of SLE. Both patients fulfilled at least four of the revised criteria for the classification of SLE. In this report, we describe two postthymectomy lupus patients and perform a comparative review of previous cases.
我们报告了两例重症肌无力(MG)患者在接受胸腺切除术后发生系统性红斑狼疮(SLE)的病例。SLE在患者胸腺切除术后3个月或13年出现,多关节炎是SLE的主要临床表现。两名患者均至少符合SLE分类修订标准中的四项。在本报告中,我们描述了两名胸腺切除术后发生狼疮的患者,并对既往病例进行了比较性回顾。