Publications by authors named "Ivan Del Bosque-Granero"
Hypophosphatemia resulting from intravenous iron treatment has become an increasingly concerning syndrome in recent years. We report the case of a 66-year-old male patient with a medical history of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), Crohn's disease, and chronic iron deficiency. Following intravenous iron infusions of ferric carboxymaltose, the patient developed diffuse bone pain and multiple bone fractures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRheumatoid meningitis is a rare complication of long-standing rheumatoid arthritis. We present the case of a 39-year-old Bolivian woman with a history of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis of 12 years of evolution without extra-articular manifestations that develops a severe headache with vomiting. The diagnosis of rheumatoid meningitis was performed based on clinical history, blood count and biochemistry results, cerebrospinal fluid analysis and cranial magnetic resonance imaging findings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh rates of severe disease and death due to SARS-CoV-2 infection in rheumatic disease patients treated with rituximab: a descriptive study.
Rheumatol Int
December 2020
Article Synopsis
- * Out of 76 patients screened, 13 (17.1%) had suspected or confirmed COVID-19, with a median age of 68 years, and many suffered from other serious health issues like pulmonary involvement.
- * The findings revealed a high hospitalization rate (61.5%) among those infected, with severe conditions leading to critical illness and a mortality rate of 23.1%, suggesting that rituximab treatment could be a risk factor for worse outcomes in these patients.