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To date, few cases of hemoglobinopathies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have been reported (Marino and Mcdonald in J Rheumatol 17:970–972, 1990; Gladman and Bombardier in Arthritis Rheum 30:1065–1068, 1987; Michel et al. in Semin Arthritis Rheum 38:228–240, 2008). These haemoglobin diseases are associated with characteristics abnormalities of the skeleton. Haemoglobin C disease is a benign hemoglobinopathy rarely associated with skeletal disorders [Piéron et al. in la semaine des hôpitaux 57(1–2):22–25, 1981]. We report a case of RA in a 60-year-old woman with homozygous haemoglobin C disease. This coexistence may be a pure coincidence, although we discuss the difficulties with RA treatment in this case due to the unknown effect of anti-rheumatic drugs on the progression of haemoglobin C disease.
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Ali Ou Alla, S., Allali, F. & Hajjaj-Hassouni, N. Rheumatoid arthritis in patient with homozygous haemoglobin C disease. Rheumatol Int 31, 801–803 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-009-1230-y
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