Mineral Oil Aspiration Related Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Mineral Oil Aspiration Related Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

We describe the development of rheumatoid factor-positive migratory polyarthritis in a 5-year-old male who had been administered bidaily oral mineral oil as a laxative since birth. Minor respiratory symptoms, radiographic and bronchoscopic findings were consistent with chronic lipoid pneumonia. We s...

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Veröffentlicht in:Case reports in pulmonology 2015-01, Vol.2015 (2015), p.1-3
Hauptverfasser: Wylam, Mark E., Reed, Ann M., Fischer, Philip R., Nelson, Andrew D.
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Sprache:eng
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Age
Case Report
Constipation
Family medical history
Inflammation
Medicine
Mineral oils
Pneumonia
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Zusammenfassung:We describe the development of rheumatoid factor-positive migratory polyarthritis in a 5-year-old male who had been administered bidaily oral mineral oil as a laxative since birth. Minor respiratory symptoms, radiographic and bronchoscopic findings were consistent with chronic lipoid pneumonia. We speculate that immune sensitization to mineral oil promoted the clinical syndrome of juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
ISSN:2090-6846
2090-6854
DOI:10.1155/2015/403109