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Rheumatology 2001; 40: 944-945
© 2001 British Society for Rheumatology

Letters to the Editor

Amyloidosis in a series of 964 Portuguese rheumatoid arthritis patients: comment on the article by Myllykangas-Luosujärvi et al.

J. E. Fonseca, H. Canhão, F. Costa Dias, M. J. Leandro, C. Resende, J. C. Teixeira Da Costa, J. A. Pereira Da Silva and M. Viana Queiroz

Unit of Rheumatology, Service of Medicine IV, Santa Maria Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal

SIR, We read with great interest the article by Myllykangas-Luosujärvi et al. [1] about amyloidosis in a series of 1666 Finnish rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients who died during 1989. In 1998 we carried out a review of 964 Portuguese RA patients which showed some remarkable results regarding the prevalence of secondary amyloidosis and the characteristics of this group of patients. This review included all patients satisfying the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) RA criteria [2], seen at the Rheumatology Unit of Santa Maria Hospital, Lisbon, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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R. Myllykangas-Luosujärvi,, K. Aho1 and M. Hakala2

Department of Internal Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio,
1 National Public Health Institute, Helsinki and
2 Department of Internal Medicine, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland


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