Analysis of risk factors for complications and adverse obstetrical outcomes in women with Takayasu arteritis: a French retrospective study and literature review.

Objective: Takayasu arteritis (TAK) is a large vessel vasculitis affecting young women of childbearing age. The outcome of pregnancies in TAK patients, factors associated with maternal and foetal complications and adverse outcomes were analysed.

Methods: All pregnancies in women with a TAK diagnosis were retrospectively included from 20 French hospitals providing care for TAK, until August 2015.

The AESOP (adenopathy and extensive skin patch overlying a plasmacytoma) syndrome: report of 4 cases of a new syndrome revealing POEMS (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal protein, and skin changes) syndrome at a curable stage.

We describe an easily recognizable and previously not individualized clinical syndrome that can reveal solitary plasmacytoma of bone. We report 4 patients with a slowly extending violaceous skin patch overlying a solitary plasmacytoma of bone, associated with enlarged regional lymph nodes. Biopsies of the cutaneous lesion and the lymph nodes were not specific, although increased dermal mucin deposition and vascular proliferation were present in all skin specimens.