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ArticleCureus2019

Severe Neutropenia Complicated with Necrotizing Fasciitis Unveils a Diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Case Report.

Dima Nimri, Mohamed A Abdallah, Qazi Ahmed Waqas, Abdelmohaymin Abdalla, Hamza Tantoush

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Article in Cureus, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dima NimriInternal Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, USA.
Mohamed A AbdallahInternal Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, USA.
Qazi Ahmed WaqasInternal Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, USA.
Abdelmohaymin AbdallaInternal Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, USA.
Hamza TantoushInternal Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, USA.
University of Sioux Falls · USUniversity of South Dakota · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Felty syndrome, a rare extra-articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), usually affects patients with long-standing disease. Patients with this syndrome typically present with neutropenia, splenomegaly, in addition to erosive RA. The development of unexplained neutropenia in healthy patients should prompt the work up for Felty syndrome, especially in patients with suggestive demographics, signs, and symptoms. Differentiation between large granular lymphocyte (LGL) leukemia and Felty syndrome is necessary as both can present with neutropenia, and are associated with RA. Immunosuppressive therapy has improved the prognosis of patients with Felty syndrome given the decreasing rates of splenectomies done in those patients over the last decades.

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felty syndromeneutropeniarheumatoid arthritis

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PMID31019857
PMCPMC6464988
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