Can rheumatoid arthritis cause non-calcified granulomas in the lungs?

Answer 1

You asked: Can rheumatic fever cause calcified granulomas in the lungs?

My answer: Yes, it can, and I'm one of them with it. I'm a health researcher and research committee chair that has studied many types of pathologies and chronic diseases. I am also profoundly deaf and have been at least severely hearing impaired starting at age 2 1/2 when I had a case of double mumps that weakened my immune system and set me for rheumatic fever at ten (found from Strep Group A). Repeated attacks took me in and out of the hospital and long road with off and on antibiotics. The aminoglycosides that were used early on slowly destroyed the remainder of my hearing and vestibular organ setting me up for a lifetime of Meniere's Syndrome and advancing sarciodosis that eventually attacked my lungs, heart, and aorta,. My heart valves were destroyed from years of attacks on it from RF, along with ossicification of my lungs. Nineteen years ago, when I was at death's doorstep, I was able to turn my health around (that alone is enough for book!). Today, at age almost 70 I feel so blessed to still be alive with all I've been through. However, with sarciodosis apparently triggered by an underlying propensity for the RF to return (I control it with daily low dose amoxicillian, but that is sometimes not enough with the heavy travel and work schedule I maintain in my work) , today, my vascular system is under attack from very active sarciodosis. The aorta is very inflamed and extends to many of my organs and heart and brain. But there are tools in the toolbox to slow it and hopefully conquer it another 10-20 years. We don't microwave our food, eat organically as much as possible, follow the Fast Metabolism Diet, and try to stay buried in my work in finding solutions for the pressing health problems that plaque mankind. I tell you my story for three reasons: 1) Yes, to your question if RF can lead to sarciodosis---many autoimmune diseases can lead to it and trigger it, so it is wise to be aware of it, because getting the diagnosis is tough; 2) you must keep up hope and not surrender, and 3) to give others--patients, researchers, clinicians, and physicians, all-- a pathway to looking closer at the idiopathic cases and know this: the key to health is within the immune system and how it is treated: first, and always, the place to resolve problematic, life threatening conditions is getting the patient healthy--leaving them where they are and not insisting on changes of diet, lifestyle, hydration, substance abuse, and all other clear dangers to health is no way to treat a patient. Educate them, inspire them, convince them, and you will done more good than all the medicine and medical equipment in the world.

Answer 2

There seems to be no material available to point in this direction at present.