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Successive unfolding of two different collagen vascular diseases in the same patient
E Gertner1, R Goodman, D D Gladman
1University of Toronto Rheumatic Disease Unit, Women's College Hospital, ON, Canada.
The Journal of Rheumatology
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Genetic factors may be important in the development of autoimmune disease. We describe the development of fulminant systemic lupus erythematosus in a patient 5 years after recovery from polymyositis. The successive unfolding of different autoimmune diseases in the same individual is suggestive of sequential gene activation.