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Felty's syndrome: a case presentation.

Abstract

A 64-year-old male patient with Felty's syndrome was treated with antibiotics, Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine sulfate), and gold salts. In the fourth week of hospitalization, the patient died. Autopsy showed extensive bronchopneumonia, fibrous pleuritis, congestive splenomegaly, mild atherosclerosis, reactive lymphoid hyperplasia, congested passive liver, severe rheumatoid arthritis, and hypercellular bone marrow.

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P L Grojec, J H Soliman, C F Fuhrmann. 1993. Felty's syndrome: a case presentation.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8121259/

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