• Internal medicine · Mar 2024

    Case Reports

    Immunosuppressive Treatment for an anti-U1 Ribonucleoprotein Antibody-positive Patient with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Case Report.

    • Kazuya Matsumoto, Yoshia Miyawaki, Takayuki Katsuyama, Takato Nakadoi, Kenta Shidahara, Kei Hirose, Shoichi Nawachi, Yosuke Asano, Yu Katayama, Eri Katsuyama, Mariko Takano-Narazaki, Yoshinori Matsumoto, Atsushi Mori, Satoshi Akagi, Ken-Ei Sada, and Jun Wada.
    • Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan.
    • Intern. Med. 2024 Mar 1; 63 (5): 671676671-676.

    AbstractA 34-year-old woman with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) was admitted to the hospital. She had been diagnosed with PAH three years earlier and treated with triple vasodilator therapy. She was positive for anti-U1 ribonucleoprotein antibodies but did not show any other symptoms associated with autoimmune diseases. Corticosteroid and cyclophosphamide therapy was administered, suspecting the involvement of immunological pathophysiology. After 3 weeks, the mean pulmonary artery pressure decreased from 50 to 38 mmHg without any change in the vasodilators. Immunosuppressive therapy was effective in this patient with PAH with an anti-U1 ribonucleoprotein-antibody-positive response and might be an option for patients with these specific features.

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