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Mesalazine-induced lupus
M A Timsit1, D Anglicheau, F Lioté
1Rheumatology Department (Viggo Petersen Center), Lariboisière Teaching Hospital, Paris, France.
Revue Du Rhumatisme (English Ed.)
|January 10, 1998
Abstract:
We report a case of lupus induced by mesalazine therapy taken for over a year for Crohn's disease. The patient had polyarthritis, alopecia, lymphoneutropenia, antinuclear factors, anti-histone antibodies, anti-Sm and anti-RNP. Discontinuation of mesalazine was followed by rapid resolution of the joint manifestations, alopecia and lymphoneutropenia; the anti-histone antibodies fell to undetectable levels and the titers of the other auto-antibodies decreased gradually.