Eyes on the Line: A Case of Ocular Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis

Antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis is a small vessel vasculitis with a positive ANCA in the serum. One of three diseases that fall under this category is granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), previously known as Wegener's granulomatosis. This case report presen...

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Autores principales: Maheshwari, Mani, Athiraman, Hemanthkumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10110410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37081899
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37723
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description Antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis is a small vessel vasculitis with a positive ANCA in the serum. One of three diseases that fall under this category is granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), previously known as Wegener's granulomatosis. This case report presents a patient with an ocular manifestation of GPA, rendering a difficult diagnosis and multi-specialty approach to managing the disease.
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spelling pubmed-101104102023-04-19 Eyes on the Line: A Case of Ocular Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis Maheshwari, Mani Athiraman, Hemanthkumar Cureus Internal Medicine Antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis is a small vessel vasculitis with a positive ANCA in the serum. One of three diseases that fall under this category is granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), previously known as Wegener's granulomatosis. This case report presents a patient with an ocular manifestation of GPA, rendering a difficult diagnosis and multi-specialty approach to managing the disease. Cureus 2023-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10110410/ /pubmed/37081899 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37723 Text en Copyright © 2023, Maheshwari et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Maheshwari, Mani
Athiraman, Hemanthkumar
Eyes on the Line: A Case of Ocular Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis
title Eyes on the Line: A Case of Ocular Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis
title_full Eyes on the Line: A Case of Ocular Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis
title_fullStr Eyes on the Line: A Case of Ocular Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis
title_full_unstemmed Eyes on the Line: A Case of Ocular Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis
title_short Eyes on the Line: A Case of Ocular Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis
title_sort eyes on the line: a case of ocular granulomatosis with polyangiitis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10110410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37081899
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37723
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