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Immune complex glomerulonephritis and dermal vasculitis following intestinal bypass for morbid obesity.

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A kidney and skin biopsy were performed on a patient who developed cryoglobulinemia, polyarthritis, a purpuric skin rash, and acute renal failure four years following jejunoileal bypass for morbid obesity. Morphologic studies revealed a diffuse glomerulonephritis characterized by the presence of

Incidentally discovered asymptomatic necrotising intra-abdominal vasculitis after peripheral gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity.

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Tenofovir-induced Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis.

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Tenofovir, a nucleotide analog, is one of the first-line medications recommended for the treatment of active chronic hepatitis B virus infection (CHB) and as a primary prophylaxis to prevent hepatitis B reactivation in cases of immunosuppression. We report the first case of tenofovir-induced

Nuclear vacuolar acantholytic vesicular dermatitis associated with leukocytoclastic vasculitis.

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A 48-year-old obese white woman had had a recurrent vesicular eruption for the previous 5 years. This eruption involved almost all parts of the body, including vaginal mucosa. The plantar and palmar surfaces were not involved. Eruptions start with a prodromal phase: 24 to 48 hours prior to the

Intracranial Atherosclerosis Versus Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: a Case Report.

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Primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS) is a rare disease with various clinical presentations. It is the preferred name for vasculitis that is confined to the central nervous system (CNS) and is often considered a diagnosis of exclusion in vascular or inflammatory CNS diseases. This

The role of additives in allergic vasculitis during intravenous hyperalimentation.

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A 39-year-old woman who had previously undergone a jejunoileal bypass for morbid obesity was receiving intravenous hyperalimentation. The patient developed allergic vasculitis while receiving fluid which contained a multi-vitamin solution. Rechallenge with this preparation resulted in an

Atherosclerotic factors in PR3 pulmonary vasculitis.

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Autoimmune disease such as systemic lupus erythematosus or rheumatoid arthritis are connected with higher risk of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular complications and mortality. This results from inflammatory damage to the vessel wall by vasculitis. The aim of the present study was to evaluate

[Rare forms of hypertension : From pheochromocytoma to vasculitis].

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Secondary hypertension affects only 5-10 % of hypertensive patients. Screening is expensive and time-consuming and should be performed only in patients for whom there is a high clinical suspicion of secondary hypertension. Clinical signs of secondary forms of hypertension are new-onset hypertension

Recognizing calcific uremic arteriolopathy in autoimmune disease: an emerging mimicker of vasculitis.

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Calcinosis has long been associated with autoimmune disease and has a distinctive profile in scleroderma, dermatomyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and overlap syndromes. However, there have also been a number of case studies of calcific uremic arteriolopathy, or calciphylaxis, described within

Neutrophilic Dermatosis Limited to Lipo-Lymphedematous Skin in a Morbidly Obese Woman on Dasatinib Therapy.

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Neutrophilic dermatosis (ND) confined to postmastectomy lymphedema, localized Sweet syndrome, is a newly recognized disease. In this study, the authors describe a 44-year-old obese woman with chronic myelogenous leukemia in molecular remission on dasatinib therapy, who presented with a painful

The spectrum of inflammatory skin disease following jejuno-ileal bypass for morbid obesity.

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From a series of 105 patients who had undergone jejuno-ileal bypass for morbid obesity, seven developed an episodic illness featuring inflammatory skin lesions, usually associated with a non-destructive polyarthritis. Tenosynovitis, myalgia and fever had also occurred. The illness abated

Periorbital venous vasculitis, intracranial hypertension and empty sella.

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Sixteen patients with chronic periorbital venous vasculitis without nerve involvement and 9 patients with active episodic cluster headache were studied as to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure. Eighty-one percent of the patients with chronic and 33% with episodic symptoms had pathologically

[Post-infectious systemic vasculitis: recovery without corticotherapy].

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In the most cases the causes of systemic vasculitis are unknown and treatment is symptomatic (corticosteroids often associated with immunosuppressive agents). We report three cases of systemic vasculitis associated with infections for which dramatic improvement was observed without cortico-therapy

Jejunoileal bypass as a treatment of morbid obesity.

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Seventy-five morbidly obese patients underwent jejunoileal bypass between December 1968 and October 1975. The average weight of 45 patients who had had the bypasses for over two years stabilized at 62.4% of the maximum preoperative value. Postoperative complications included recurrent diarrhea in

Cardiovascular disease due to accelerated atherosclerosis in systemic vasculitides.

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Patients with different forms of systemic vasculitis experience long-term morbidity and mortality caused by cardiovascular disease due to premature atherosclerosis. Epidemiologic reports of patients with GCA suggest that long-term mortality in this disease is not increased compared with the general

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