vasculitis/diarrhea

Gastrointestinal involvement occurs frequently in essential mixed cryoglobulinemia, and most often involves the liver and spleen. Intestinal involvement is much less common and is generally felt to be a late and often catastrophic manifestation of the disease due to severe vasculitis. Occasionally,

A 13-year-old girl was hospitalized for fever, malaise, intractable diarrhea, and intermittent gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Despite aggressive antimicrobial and supportive treatment, she died with massive bleeding from the upper gastrointestinal tract. Autopsy study revealed systemic polyarteritis

SARS‐CoV‐2, responsible for CoViD‐19, is a new virus that can infect different cellular lines, including endothelia and epithelial cells of the gastrointestinal tract mucosa. At this level, the virus can cause different types of direct damage, even in paucisymptomatic, young patients. Virus can be

Hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis syndrome (HUVS) is a rare autoimmune disease characterized by multiple organ system involvement, including renal disease, with low complement levels. We report the case of a 31-year-old woman who presented with nonspecific symptoms including fatigue,

We report on a 67-year-old female patient who was admitted to our intensive care unit with acute renal failure and severe hypoxemia. Transiently, the patient had to be treated with kidney replacement therapies and artificial ventilation. The actual illness started with general weakness, recurrent

We reported 2 children with suspected primary vasculitis of mesenteric vessels. Both children were admitted to our hospital with the complaints of abdominal pain, bloody stool or diarrhea. Laboratory examination simultaneously revealed leukocytosis with dominant neutrophils, positive CRP, and

In a 53-year-old female patient with recurrent, sometimes bloody diarrhea, the long standing diagnosis of an ANA-negative lupus erythematosus with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, leucocytoclastic vasculitis and chronic hepatitis was ruled out and the diagnosis of a hepatitis C associated

Episodes of catastrophic entero-colitis associated with mesenteric vascular insufficiency in patients with rheumatoid arthritis(RA) have rarely been recorded thus far. We herein report two cases of RA complicated with severe attacks of entero-colitis presumably due to mesenteric vasculitis. Surgical

Immunoglobulin A (IgA) vasculitis, formerly called Henoch-Schönlein purpura, is a leukocytoclastic type of vasculitis affecting small vessels with a deposition of immune IgA complexes, clinically characterized by the classic tetrad of nonthrombocytopenic palpable purpura, arthralgia (or arthritis),

A clinico-morphological description is presented of a severe systemic disease in 36-year-old male, the trigger factor of which was Yersinia enterocolitica. The patient developed a peculiar nosological variant of systemic necrotic vasculitis of infectious-allergic genesis with signs of nodular

We reported clinical and laboratory findings of 5 patients with Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS), especially association with asthma symptoms. Subjects included 3 males and 2 females with a mean age of 53.8 year-old. In all 5 patients symptoms of neuropathy; mononeuritis multiplex and in some patients,

Orbital venous vasculitis has been suggested to cause characteristic periorbital pain in patients with pathologic changes in their orbital phlebograms. The orbital pain is characterized by being unilateral, not shifting side, boring and pressing, but not throbbing, increasing on eye strain, exposure

Dermatomyositis (DM) is an autoimmune disease characterized by muscle involvement of the proximal extremities and specific skin involvement, like Gottron sign and heliotrope rash. HenochSchonlein purpura (IgA vasculitis) nephritis is characterized by hematuria and/or proteinuria clinically, with