Associations between sarcoidosis, autoimmune diseases, and autoantibodies: a single-center retrospective study in China.

To describe the clinical manifestations, immunological features, and risk factors in patients with sarcoidosis complicated with autoimmune diseases (ADs) as well as determine the frequency of autoantibodies and possible correlation between autoantibodies and laboratory data. Patients with pathologically confirmed sarcoidosis at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital (China) between January 2017 and October 2020 were included. Age- and sex-matched patients who visited the rheumatology outpatient clinic without systemic or ADs were included as controls.

Thymic epithelial tumor complicated by immunological abnormalities: results from a single-center retrospective study in China.

Background: To describe the clinical manifestations, immunological features, treatments, and outcomes of patients with thymic epithelial tumor (TET) complicated by immunological abnormalities, and to improve knowledge on immunological abnormalities in this rare disease.

Methods: Patients with pathologically confirmed TET at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital between January 2013 and May 2018 were included in this study, and clinical data were analyzed retrospectively. Immunological abnormalities were classified into two groups as follows: Good syndrome (GS) and autoimmune disease (AD).

A rare case of meningoencephalitis by Listeria monocytogenes in systemic lupus erythematosus: case report and review.

Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have a high risk of infection. Central nervous system infection and neuropsychiatric SLE are both major causes of death. It is vital to distinguish between these two conditions to improve prognosis due to the treatment paradigms required for each condition.

Successful treatment of granulomatosis with polyangiitis with hydropneumothorax using corticosteroids and immunosuppressant.

Pneumothorax and pleural effusion is a rare and serious complication of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA). The present study reported a case with a history of sinusitis for 20 years, dry cough for three years and exacerbated purulent nasal discharge and recurrent skin ulcers for two years. The patient experienced sudden difficulty in breathing two months prior to presentation.

Pyrolytic cavitation, selective adsorption and molecular recognition of a porous Eu(III) MOF.

A channel-equipped metal-organic framework (1-pyr), resulting from the pyrolysis of [(CH3)2NH2]@[Eu2L3(HCOO)] (1) (L(2-) = isophthalate), showed the preferable absorption of CO2 and the Eu(III)-based emission quenched by aromatics.

Early biochemical response to ursodeoxycholic acid and long-term prognosis of primary biliary cirrhosis: results of a 14-year cohort study.

Unlabelled: The biochemical response to ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) in primary biliary cirrhosis is a strong predictor of long-term outcome and thus facilitates the rapid identification of patients needing new therapeutic approaches. Numerous criteria for predicting outcome of treatment have been studied based on biochemical response to UDCA at 1 year. We sought to determine whether an earlier biochemical response at 3 or 6 months could as efficiently identify patients at risk of poor outcome, as defined by liver-related death, liver transplantation, and complications of cirrhosis.

[The characteristics of peripheral lymphocytic subsets and cytokines in primary biliary and their changes to drug treatment.].

Objective: To investigate the characteristics of peripheral lymphocytic subsets and cytokines in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and their changes after therapy.

Methods: Eighty two patients with untreated PBC were divided randomly into three groups. Group U (28 patients) were treated with ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA), group UP (27 patients) were treated with UDCA and prednisonlone, while group UA (27 patients) were treated with UDCA and azatharaprine.

Antimitochondrial antibody-negative primary biliary cirrhosis: a subset of primary biliary cirrhosis.

Objective: Antimitochondrial antibodies (AMA) are the hallmark in primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC); nevertheless, it has long been recognized that 5-10% patients with typical features compatible with PBC do not have detectable AMA, and they were referred to as 'AMA-negative PBC'. This study aimed to evaluate whether AMA-negative/positive PBC represents different clinical entities.

Methods: We compared the clinical, laboratory, percentage of regulatory T cells (Tregs) in peripheral blood, liver biopsy features and response to treatment of the two groups of patients.

[Characteristics of airway involvement in relapsing polychondritis].

Objective: To investigate the characteristics of airway involvement in relapsing polychondritis (RP).

Methods: The clinical data, including clinical manifestations, respiratory function test, computerized tomography (CT), and bronchoscopy of 38 out of the 56 RP patients who had airway involvement, 20 males and 18 females, with the mean onset age of 45 +/- 11 (27 - 71), and 3 RP patients without airway involvement were retrospectively analyzed. Three patients out of the 16 RP patients who did not have respiratory involvement but underwent respiratory function test, CT, and bronchoscopy were used as controls.

[Clinical analysis of pneumomediastinum complicated in polymyositis and dermatomyositis].

Objective: To analyze the clinical features of pneumomediastinum complicated in polymyositis and dermatomyositis (PM/DM) and to study the pathogenesis thereof.

Methods: The clinical data of 4 patients with pneumomediastinum complicated in dermatomyositis out of 447 PM/DM patients hospitalized in Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) Hospital Jan 1989 to June 2005, were analyzed. The records of patients with PM/DM available in English throughout the world were reviewed to collect those with pneumomediastinum as a complication.

[Room-temperature solid-state synthesis of complexes of copper acetate and multi-nitrogen heterocyclic ligands].

At room temperature, sufficiently grinding the mixtures of copper acetate with 1,2,4-triazole and benzotriazole separately resulted in the proceeding of the solid state reaction. It was found that the acetate acid flowed during the grinding. The heterocycle ligand 1,2,4-triazole or benzotriazole replaced the acetate and coordinates to Cu (II) to form a mixed ligands complex.