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Anti-centromere antibody-positive subjects presenting with hypertensive emergency and renal dysfunction in the absence of skin manifestations: a variant of systemic sclerosis or a novel entity?
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2012
Mandai Shintaro, Arai Yohei, Hirasawa Suguru, Hirai Toshiyuki, Aki Shota, Inaba Naoto, Aoyagi Makoto, Tanaka Hiroyuki, Tamura Teiichi, Sasaki Sei
Abstract excerpt
Two patients with anti-centromere antibody (ACA), hypertensive emergency, and acute renal failure, mimicking scleroderma renal crisis, without Raynaud's phenomenon and typical skin manifestations of systemic sclerosis (SSc), are reported. A review of 26 ACA-positive patients between March 2003 and March 2011 in Yokosuka Kyosai Hospital identified four additional patients with similar manifestations. All patients...
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