Prevalence of calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease in a cohort of patients diagnosed with seronegative rheumatoid arthritis.

CONCLUSIONS: CPPD disease can mimic seronegative RA at baseline and is important in the differential diagnosis of seronegative arthritis at baseline and during follow-up. The prevalence of CPPD patients in our early seronegative RA patients was 3.9%, the percentage was 7.0% among patients ≥60 years at baseline. PMID: 31140401 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology - Category: Rheumatology Tags: Clin Exp Rheumatol Source Type: research