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1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

ESTABLISHMENT OF "THEUMATIC CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME IN CHILDREN" AND NATIONWIDE SURVEY OF ITS FREQUENCY

Research Project

Project/Area Number 07670885
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Pediatrics
Research InstitutionYOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

AIHARA Yukoh  YOKOHAMA CITY UNIV. SCH. OF MED., ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, 医学部・附属病院・小児科, 講師 (50211686)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) YOKOTA Shumpei  YOKOHAMA CITY UNIV. SCH. OF MED., ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, 医学部・附属病院・小児科, 講師 (10158363)
Project Period (FY) 1995 – 1996
KeywordsRHEUMATIC CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME IN CHILDREN / ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY / DEFINITION
Research Abstract

WE ANALYZED 23 PATIENTS WITH "RHEUMATIC CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME IN CHILDHOOD". FEMALE IS PREDOMINANT (91%), AND THERE WERE NO SPECIFIC CLINICAL SYMPTOMS. HOWEVER, FEVER (61%), ARTHRALGIA (57%), GENERAL FATIGUE (48%) AND HEADACHE (35%) WERE FREQUENTLY OBSERVED. AS FOR LABORATORY DATA, ALL PATIENTS HAVE ANTlNUCLEAR ANTIBODY(ANA) WITH LOW TITER (1:40-1:640) IN SERA. THE FLUORESCENT PATTERN OF ANAS IN ALL BUT ONE (96%) WERE HOMOGENEOUS/SPECKLED. IN SOME PATIENTS, RHEUMATOID FACTOR, HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA AND ACCELERATION OF ESR WERE OBSERVED. OTHER AUTOIMMUNE ANTIBODIES WERE NOT DETECTED IN MOST PATIENTS. THE LEVELS OF SERUM COMPLEMENT, ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS WERE NORMAL.
FAMILY STUDY REVEALED THAT 55% OF THEIR MOTHERS HAD SIMILARLY LOW TITER (1:40-1:80) OF ANA IN SERA. THE FLUORESCENT PATTERNS OF ANAS WERE ALL HOMOGENEOUS/SPECKLED. SOME OF THEM HAD THE SAME SYMPTOMS OF THE PATIENT.
FROM THE ANALYSIS OF ANTIGENS RECOGNIZED BY ANAS IN PATIENTS, SO FAR WE COULD NOT DETECT ANY SPECIFIC BANDS COMMONLY SEEN IN THE PATIENTS WITH IMMUNOBLOTTlNG.
WE HAVE FINISHED THE ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL SYMPTOMS AND LABORATORY DATA COMMONLY USED IN CLINIC IN THE PATIENTS. HOWEVER, WE STILL HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND OUT SPECIFIC MAKERS IN ANA AND TO ESTABLISH NEW DEFINITIONS OF THIS SYNDROME. IN PRELIMINARY STUDY, THERE WERE NOT A FEW PATIENTS FITTED WITH THE SYMPTOMS AND LABORATORY DATA MENTIONED ABOVE.
IN NEAR FUTURE WE WILL DO A NATION-WIDE SURVEY OF THIS SYNDROME WITH THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED DEFINITION.

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All Publications (15 results)

  • [Publications] 友野順章、栗山智之、森雅亮、高橋由利子、満田年宏、相原雄幸、横田俊平: "小児期発症進行性全身性硬化症におけるRaynaud現象の経時的サーモグラフィー所見"リウマチ. 36. 522-527 (1996)

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  • [Publications] 横田俊平、今川智之、森雅亮、満田年宏、相原雄幸: "小児期発症混合性結合組織病 -全国調査の結果から-"日本内科学会誌. 85. 1217-1222 (1996)

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  • [Publications] 横田俊平、今川智之、相原雄幸: "小児期発症混合性結合組織病の全国調査結果 (1)臨床症状についての解析 (2)治療法についての解析"厚生省特定疾患 混合性結合組織病調査研究班 平成7年度研究報告書. 53-59 (1996)

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  • [Publications] 相原雄幸、森雅亮、友野順章、今川智之、片倉茂樹、高橋由利子、満田年宏、横田俊平: "感染症罹患に伴い抗核抗体が検出された5症例の臨床的検討"小児感染免疫. 9. 115-120 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Y.Aihara,C.Shimizu,Y.Fujiwara,S.Yokota: "Acute anterior in a child with HLA-B60 after salmonella enteritis associated with transient appearance of auto-antibody"Acta Paediatrica Japonica. 38. 286-287 (1996)

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  • [Publications] S.Yokota,T.Imagawa,S.Katakura,S.itoh,T.Mitsuda,S.Fujikawa,Y.Aihara: "Mixed connective tissue disease in childhood : A nationwide retrospective study in Japan"Acta Paediatrica Japonica. 39. 273-276 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Y.Aihara,M.Mori,T.Kobayashi,S.Yokota: "A pediatric case of polymyositis associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection"Scand J Rheumatol. 26. 480-481 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 相原雄幸: "抗核抗体"小児内科. (印刷中).

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  • [Publications] M.TOMONO, T.KURIYAMA, M.MORI, Y.TAKAHASHI, T.MITSUDA, Y.AIHARA, S.YOKOTA: "SERIAL COMPUTED THERMOGRAPHY FOR RAYNAUD'SPHENOMENON OF PATIENT WITH PROGRESSIVE SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS (PSS)"RYUMACHI. 36(IN JAPANESE). 522-527 (1996)

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  • [Publications] S.YOKOTA, T.IMAGAWA, M.MORI, T.MITSUDA, Y.AIHARA: "MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD: A NATIONWIDE RETROSPECTIVE STUDY IN JAPAN"JJM. 85(IN JAPANESE). 1217-1222 (1996)

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  • [Publications] Y.AIHARA, M.MORI, M.TOMONO, T.IMAGAWA, S.KATAKURA, Y.TAKAHASHI, T.MITSUDA, S.YOKOTA: "CLINICAL STUDY OF THE PATIENTS WITH COMMON INFECTIOUS DISEASES, WHO SHOWED ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY IN SERA"JJII. 9(IN JAPANESE). 115-120 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Y.Aihara, C.Shimizu, Y.Fujiwara, S.Yokota: "Acute anterior uveitis in a child with HLA-B60 after Salmonella enteritis associated with the transient appearance of auto-antibody"Acta Paediatrica Japonica. 38. 286-287 (1996)

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  • [Publications] S.Yokota, T.Imagawa, S.Katakura, S.Itoh, T.Mitsuda, S.Fujikawa, Y.Aihara: "Mixed connective tissue disease in childhood: A nationwide retrospective study in Japan"Acta Paediatrica Japonica. 39. 273-276 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Y.Aihara, M.Mori, T.Kobayashi, S.Yokota: "A pediatric case of polymyositis associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection"Scand J Rheumatol. 26. 480-481 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Y.AIHARA: "ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY"JPM. (IN PRESS).

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