Volume : IX, Issue : III, March - 2019

A RARE CASE OF MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISORDER IN A MALE PATIENT

Dr. Raghu Nandini Y, Dr. Poornima. K, Dr. Ranganath. M

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Introduction : Mixed connective tissue disorder{MCTD}, also known as Sharp‘s syndrome is a rare disease with female : male preponderance 16:1. it is rarely reported in india. MCTD is a disease with overlapping features of many connective disorders with anti U1 RNP positivity. We present a male patient with fever,skin rash,painful joint swellings as initial presentation that led to diagnosis of MCTD. Case report : A 40 year old male working as farmer presented with initial complaints of fever,joint sweling and pains sincce 15 days.physical examination revealed diffuse erythematous rash over the body,malar rash over the face,swollen fingers with severe small joint tenderness.after excluding all cause of fever with rash, laboratory workup showed MCTD. Many criteria have been described to classify MTCD.our patient satisfied kasukawa diagnostic criteria.

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A RARE CASE OF MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISORDER IN A MALE PATIENT, DR. RAGHU NANDINI Y, DR.Poornima.K, DR.Ranganath.M INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-3 | March-2019

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