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a women with rheumatoid arthritis - djyoti
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04-30-2006, 03:46 PM
with fever

she is on prednisone ethanercept --what is the culprit
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04-30-2006, 03:50 PM
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04-30-2006, 03:51 PM
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04-30-2006, 03:54 PM
i guess its steroid.
steroid causes decrease in leucocyte adhesion and thus its function..........any other guess??
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04-30-2006, 03:57 PM
immunosupression------infection
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04-30-2006, 04:13 PM
it is ethanercept --t cell inhibitor

so more infection --even tb
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