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Anticentromere antibody positive CREST syndrome associated with polyarthritis, renal impairment and mixed
H G Shetty1, M M O'Sullivan, N Amos
1Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK.
Clinical Rheumatology
|September 1, 1989
Abstract:
We describe a 63-year-old female who developed the CREST syndrome within two years. Even though she was anticentromere antibody positive, her illness followed a very aggressive course and was associated with severe polyarthritis, renal impairment, hypocomplementaemia and mixed cryoglobulinaemia.