Abstracts tagged "methotrexate (MTX) and viruses"

Abstract Number: 2621 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Characteristics of Histopathology and Clinical Course of 19 Cases That Developed a Lymphoproliferative Disease (LPD) during Methotrexate (MTX) Treatment.
Noriyuki HAYASHI¹, Kae HAMAMOTO², Kouichiro YODA², Maki YODA², Shinsuke YAMADA³, Hitoshi GOTO² and Masaaki INABA², ¹Rheumatology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, ²Second Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan, ³Rheumatology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Midicine, Osaka, Japan
Background/Purpose: We examined the clinical features of the cases after discontinuation or decrease of dosage of MTX in the MTX-LPD.Methods: We retrospectively examined a patient…