Mixed connective tissue disease

Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a rare connective tissue disorder combining clinical features of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), systemic sclerosis (SSc), polymyositis (PM) (see these terms) and/or rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Fever

Elevated body temperature due to failed thermoregulation.


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PMID (PMCID)
22579274
(4293699)
 FEMALE Adult
Differentiating scleroderma renal crisis from other causes of thrombotic microangiopathy in a postpartum patient.
Abudiab M, Krause ML, Fidler ME, Nath KA, Norby SM.
Clin Nephrol. 2013;80(4):293-7.
We describe the case of a 25-year-old woman with an undefined mixed connective tissue disease who presented 6 weeks post-partum with fever, transient aphasia, thrombocytopenia, hemolytic anemia, and acute kidney injury eventually requiring initiation of hemodialysis.
18448508
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Rapid diagnosis of pulmonary TB by BAL enzyme-linked immunospot assay in an immunocompromised host.
Strassburg A, Jafari C, Ernst M, Lotz W, Lange C.
Eur Respir J. 2008;31(5):1132-5.
The present authors report a 38-yr-old female presenting with a 3-week history of malaise, dyspnoea, fevers and coughing, who had received immunosuppressive therapies over 8 months for mixed connective tissue disease.
3172120
 FEMALE Adult
Thrombocytopenia and hemolytic anemia in a patient with mixed connective tissue disease due to thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
ter Borg EJ, Houtman PM, Kallenberg CG, van Leeuwen MA, van Ryswyk MH.
J Rheumatol. 1988;15(7):1174-7.
A 33-year-old woman with mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) presented with headache, fever, thrombocytopenia, hemolytic anemia, and renal involvement due to thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP).