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).

Aphasia

An acquired language impairment of some or all of the abilities to produce or comprehend speech and to read or write.


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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.
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 FEMALE Adult
Myocarditis of mixed connective tissue disease: favourable outcome after intravenous pulsed cyclophosphamide.
Hammann C, Genton CY, Delabays A, Bischoff Delaloye A, Bogousslavsky J, Spertini F.
Clin Rheumatol. 1999;18(1):85-7.
A 30-year-old woman with mixed connective tissue disease was admitted with Wernicke's aphasia and progressive dyspnoea with chest pain.