[Adult onset Still's disease (AOSD) treated with a combination of prednisolone, cyclosporin A, and methotrexate].

A 58-year-old Japanese woman developed spiking fever, polyarthralgia and hepatosplenomegaly, with highly elevated levels of c-creactive protein (CRP) and ferrtin, and elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). The AOSD was diagnosed according to the Yamaguchi-criteria of 1992. She was first treated with a combination of prednisolone (20 mg/day) and oral methotrexate (MTX) (7.