Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on June 23, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48(9):1169-1170; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep172
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Aortic aneurysm in MAGIC syndrome successfully managed with combined anti-TNF-
and stent grafting
1Internal Medicine Department and 2Vascular Radiology Department, University Hospital of Lille, Lille, France
Correspondence to: Marc Lambert, Internal Medicine Department, University Hospital of Lille, 59037 Lille Cedex, France. E-mail: m-lambert@chru-lille.fr
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SIR, A 48-year-old woman with MAGIC (Mouth And Genital Ulcers with Inflamed Cartilages) syndrome {Behçet's disease (BD) and relapsing polychondritis [1]} consulted our medical department in 2000 following development of an acute left cochleovestibular syndrome. She was discovered to have mixed type II cryoglobulinaemia and hepatitis C and responded fully to anti-viral therapy. Severe recurrent bipolar aphthosis, erythema nodosum and oligoarthritis first appeared in 2001, and