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KMID : 0378619920090010127
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Baptist Hospital Medical Journal
1992 Volume.9 No. 1 p.127 ~ p.133
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Mixed connective tissue disease with diabetes mellitus, pulmonary hypertension
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박성수
이정웅/김종현/김경환/권기호/박양훈/제영성
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Abstract
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Mixed connective tissue disease(MCTD) is clinically overlap syndrome as systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, polymyositis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes mellitus, autoimmune thyroiditis. The pathogenesis of this disease is unclear, but
suspected
as the abnormal immunoregulation. MCTD can be diagnosed as high titer of anti-RNP antibody. Prognosis for this disease is somewhat better than for SLE and scleroderma. The response to steroid is better than scleroderma. Recently we had the
opportunicity
to observe MCTD of which clinical and serologic characteristics compatible with MCTD, So. we report the case and review related literatures.
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