Publications by authors named "Imene Rachdi"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to evaluate the renal response to three different immunosuppressive treatment protocols for patients with proliferative lupus nephritis in Tunisia over a 23-year period.
- The findings revealed that 94.1% of patients on the High CYP regimen achieved a renal response, significantly outperforming both the Low CYP (67.5%) and MMF (61.9%) regimens.
- The High CYP treatment was linked to better outcomes in terms of renal response, although it also had a higher incidence of severe adverse events compared to the other two protocols.
Introduction: to describe the epidemiological, clinical, therapeutic and evolving characteristics of Behçet´s disease and identify prognostic factors.
Methods: we have realized a retrospective, single-center study, conducted over a period of 26 years and including 130 patients presenting Behçet´s disease and hospitalized in an Internal Medicine Department.
Results: the mean age of the Behçet´s disease at onset was 30.
Osteonecrosis in antiphospholipid syndrome is a diagnostic challenge for clinicians. Early diagnosis and intervention are important for better prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe should keep in mind slowly growing malignancies when the lesion is located close to the synovial regions of the extremities. The diagnosis of certainty of myxofibrosarcoma is histological and is based on the demonstration of the myxoid matrix, fibroblastic cells with a curvilinear arrangement of the vessels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArterial Hypertension in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: About 40 Cases.
Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl
July 2021
The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and the etiologic profile of hypertension (HTN) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A retrospective analysis was performed on 153 patients with SLE who attended our center for 16 years from January 2000 to December 2016. The diagnosis of SLE was established according to the classification criteria of the American College of Rheumatology in 1990.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Renal involvement is a common and serious manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and it is life-threatening.
Aim: To identify the predictive factors of the lupus nephritis (LN).
Methods: A descriptive, analytical, single-centre, retrospective study of 115 patients with SLE (ACR 1997) was carried out in an internal medicine department for a period of 20 years from 1997 until 2017.
Background: Hemophagocytic syndromes are mostly associated with underlying pathology, they can reveal: immunodeficiency, infections, hemopathies, cancers and auto-immune diseases.
Aim: to investigate clinical, biological features, outcome characteristics and underlying pathology of Tunisian patients with hemophagocytic syndromes.
Methods: A retrospective study of patients with hemophagocytic syndromes admitted in an internal medicine department in Tunis over the period 2009-2012.