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If a patient had met ACR criteria, but with follow up was unequivocally diagnosed as having another well-characterized rheumatic disease, this individual was not included in the definition of RA.
Autoantibodies directed against the Golgi complex were first identified in the serum of a Sjögren's syndrome patient with lymphoma [ 1 ] . Subsequent reports described anti-Golgi complex autoantibodies (AGA) in patients with systemic rheumatic diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus [ 2 ] , rheumatoid arthritis [ 3 ] , and Wegener's granulomatosis [ 4 ] . Immunoblotting and immunoprecipitation studies have shown that there was heterogeneity of reactivity among AGA [ 5 ] .
Indeed, the most recently published study (which did not suffer from measurement bias) showed a high prevalence (30%) of AR in persons taking fenfluramine or dexfenfluramine at the time of the echocardiogram, similar to the older prevalence studies [ 15 ] . Regarding the potential reversibility of valve dysfunction, great caution must be exercised in assuming any substantial reversal of valvular plaques, as recent pathological studies suggest a progressive nature to these lesions [ 33 ] . Furthermore, limited, early apparent echocardiographic improvement of acute rheumatic carditis has also been recently demonstrated [ 34 ] . The early improvement seen in this setting certainly does not preclude later progression of rheumatic valvular heart disease.
A similarly high variability was shown for polyreactive antibodies and rheumatic factors in RA [ 29].
AS = ankylosing spondylitis; B27 = histocompatibility antigen B27; CREST = calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal dysfunction, sclerodactyly, telangiectasia; E 2 = estradiol-17β JRA = juvenile rheumatoid arthritis; RA = rheumatoid arthritis; RAD = rheumatic/autoimmune disease; SLE = systemic lupus erythematosus.
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