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SEMINARS IN ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM
卷 42, 期 2, 页码 206-212出版社
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2012.03.008
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sarcoidosis; interferon-beta; multiple sclerosis; chronic inflammation
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Objectives: To report a rare case of sarcoidosis induced by chronic interferon-beta (a type I interferon) therapy of multiple sclerosis and to review previously reported cases. Methods: We describe a patient with a prior diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, who developed non-caseating granulomas in her skin and pulmonary lymph nodes, consistent with sarcoidosis, while being treated with recombinant interferon-beta. A retrospective review of the literature was performed using the PubMed database. Results: In our patient, sarcoidosis developed after 3 years of continuous recombinant interferon-beta therapy, dosed 3 times a week. The patient presented with progressive dyspnea on exertion, diffuse arthralgias, low-grade fevers, with an acute onset of rash. The diagnosis of sarcoidosis was secured by finding typical, well-formed, noncaseating granulomas on skin and endobronchial biopsies, with other possible etiologies for granulomatous conditions excluded beforehand. Following the withdrawal of recombinant interferon-beta and a course of corticosteroids combined with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug therapy, the patient's clinical presentation resolved. Excluding ours, only 4 additional cases of sarcoidosis developing after interferon-beta therapy have been reported, with 2 of those cases in the context of underlying multiple sclerosis. Conclusions: Developing sarcoidosis during treatment of multiple sclerosis with recombinant interferon-beta represents an exceedingly rare and paradoxical adverse event. The occurrence of sarcoidosis with the use of this agent is perhaps due to a dysregulation in the modulatory role played by interferon-beta (and more generally type I interferon) expression in chronic inflammation. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Semin Arthritis Rheum 42:206-212
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