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Case Report: Overlapping Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Sclerosis in an Elderly Male With Positive Fibrillarin
Lina An1, Jian Lu2, Chang Liu1
1Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Abstract:
This case report describes a 67-year-old male with confirmed overlap syndrome of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic sclerosis (SSc), exhibiting fibrillarin autoantibody positivity. Therapeutic intervention with methylprednisolone, methotrexate, and adjuvant medications resulted in substantial amelioration of articular symptoms. This case underscores the potential diagnostic and prognostic utility of fibrillarin autoantibodies in SSc, while highlighting the rarity of RA-SSc overlap syndrome with concurrent fibrillarin autoantibody expression.
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