Polyarteritis nodosa
Ischemic Colitis Revealing Polyarteritis Nodosa
... Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN), first described in 1866 by Kussmaul and Maier [1], is systemic necrotizing vasculitis that predominantly affects medium sized arteries and is primary in most patients but is the ...
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Polyarteritis nodosa isolated to the testis and urinary bladder in the setting of cryptorchidism: a case report and literature review
... organ polyarteritis nodosa can sometimes be managed with surgical excision of the involved organ ...cure polyarteritis nodosa despite the involvement of two organs in the absence of symptoms ...
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Polyarteritis nodosa complicated by posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: a case report
... Case presentation: A 26-year-old South-Asian female presented with left sided focal seizures with secondary generalization and visual disturbance for 2 days duration. She had a prior history of arthralgia and weight loss ...
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<p>Recurrent ruptured abdominal aneurysms in polyarteritis nodosa successfully treated with infliximab</p>
... Systemic polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a rare primary vasculitis syndrome affecting medium-sized arteries in various organs. Approximately 50% of the patients have gastrointestinal (GI) involvement with ...
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Cranial Nerve Involvement With Juvenile Polyarteritis Nodosa: Clinical Manifestations and Treatment
... Juvenile polyarteritis nodosa, a rare systemic vasculitis, may present with a wide variety of clinical ...juvenile polyarteritis nodosa who developed cranial nerve III palsy, demonstrated both ...
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Giant coronary artery aneurysms in juvenile polyarteritis nodosa: a case report
... Juvenile polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a rare, necrotizing vasculitis, primarily affecting small to medium-sized muscular arteries [1]. Recent classification criteria from EULAR/PRES require histopathology ...
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Bilateral Spontaneous Perirenal Hemorrhage due to Initial Presentation of Polyarteritis Nodosa
... Spontaneous perirenal hemorrhage (SPH) is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition which is characterized by hemorrhage into perirenal space. It is associated with flank pain, palpable abdominal or flank mass, ...
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Clinicopathological and morbidity profile of childhood polyarteritis nodosa in a tertiary referral center
... Childhood polyarteritis nodosa though very rare in children may be under diagnosed because of many nonspecific-presenting features of PAN mimicking infectious causes and chronic inflammatory ...
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Necrosis of the small intestine leading to a diagnosis of polyarteritis nodosa: a case report
... Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a condition involving necro- tizing vasculitis in small and medium-sized arteries [1]. It can often occur in various organs, with approximately half of patients having ...
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A case of polyarteritis nodosa limited to the right calf muscles, fascia, and skin: a case report
... Case presentation: A 36-year-old Caucasian woman presented with a 10-month history of progressive right calf pain and swelling, which were unresponsive to treatment with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and ...
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A Case of Polyarteritis Nodosa Presenting as Rapidly Progressing Intermittent Claudication of Right Leg
... Background. Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a medium vessel vasculitis which causes significant morbidity and mortality. Usually, it presents with constitutional symptoms with angiographic evidence of ...
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Polyarteritis Nodosa Presenting as Temporal Arteritis in a 9 Year Old Child
... Summary: A 9-year-old Haitian girl presented initially with monocular blindness and an isolated temporal arter- itis, confirmed by angiographic studies and temporal artery biopsy findings. CT and MR studies of the ...
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Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in vasculitic ulcers: a case of polyarteritis nodosa
... Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a systemic necrotizing vas- culitis that typically affects medium-sized vessels. It is pri- mary in the majority of cases, but may also be secondary to viral infections for ...
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Neuroradiologic findings in polyarteritis nodosa
... of polyarteritis nodosa in pa- tients who test positive for hepatitis B surface antigen is now a well-described phenomenon (32) and serves as evidence supporting the hy- pothesis that, at least in many ...
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Childhood Polyarteritis Nodosa in Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome
... of polyarteritis nodosa that includes numerous arterial aneurysms in a child with ...of polyarteritis nodosa associated with human ALPS sup- ports previous findings in Fas-deficient mouse models ...
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Treatment of polyarteritis nodosa with tocilizumab: a new therapeutic approach?
... We describe the effect of interleukin 6 (IL-6) blockade using tocilizumab (TCZ) for inducing and maintaining remission of refractory polyarteritis nodosa (PAN). Three patients with refractory PAN defined ...
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Renal infarction due to polyarteritis nodosa in a patient with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma: a case report and a brief review of the literature
... complexes. Polyarteritis nodosa is an autoimmune disease characterized by necrotizing vasculitis of medium vessels, which rarely develops in association with hematological malignant ...between ...
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Polyarteritis Nodosa Attributable to Minocycline Treatment for Acne Vulgaris
... developed polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) as evidenced by livedo reticularis, diffuse myalgias and arthralgias, and skin biopsy-proven small and medium-sized ...
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A rare case of childhood polyarteritis nodosa successfully treated with etanercept
... systemic polyarteritis nodose in ...cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa is a separate entity to systemic polyarteritis ...cutaneous Polyarteritis Nodosa to disease affecting skin, ...
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Polyarteritis Nodosa in Older Children
... Abdominal pain, arthritis, hypertension, and severe renal disease are more common in polyarteritis, while cracked and bleeding lips and conjunctivitis are. features of MCLS and usually a[r] ...
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