Compendium Takes Rheumatology to Extremes

A medical web site devoted to extremes in medicine seeks record-setting rheumatology cases.

Smilack JD. Medical Extremes (A Compendium of Medical Records) Is Now Online. The American Journal of Medicine 2014;127(12): e41, December 2014 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.09.005

Inspired by the Guinness Book of World Records, the author and his colleagues published a short book of extreme measurements in medicine several years ago.

They've now turned the book into a free access web site, and are soliciting new entries for it.

The rheumatology-related entries to date are:

Highest serum DNA titer

1:2,560

Highest serum anti-mitochondrial antibody titer

1:640

Highest serum antinuclear antibody (ANA) titer

1:81,920

Highest serum anti-streptolysin O (ASO) titer

1:4,800

Highest serum rheumatoid factor titer

1:10,240