Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis Presenting as Chest Pain: A Case Report

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is a relatively rare systemic autoimmune disorder of small and medium size blood vessels affecting multiple organs with a wide range of clinical presentations. We present a 57-year-old Caucasian male who presented to the ER with midsternal chest pain. He was ho...

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Autores principales: Fentie, Kindalem, Singanamala, Swathi, Hozayen, Omar, Altaf, Lareb
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10224739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37252550
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38204
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description Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is a relatively rare systemic autoimmune disorder of small and medium size blood vessels affecting multiple organs with a wide range of clinical presentations. We present a 57-year-old Caucasian male who presented to the ER with midsternal chest pain. He was hospitalized for non-ST elevated myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and later diagnosed with pauci-immune necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis confirmed with renal biopsy.
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spelling pubmed-102247392023-05-28 Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis Presenting as Chest Pain: A Case Report Fentie, Kindalem Singanamala, Swathi Hozayen, Omar Altaf, Lareb Cureus Cardiology Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is a relatively rare systemic autoimmune disorder of small and medium size blood vessels affecting multiple organs with a wide range of clinical presentations. We present a 57-year-old Caucasian male who presented to the ER with midsternal chest pain. He was hospitalized for non-ST elevated myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and later diagnosed with pauci-immune necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis confirmed with renal biopsy. Cureus 2023-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10224739/ /pubmed/37252550 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38204 Text en Copyright © 2023, Fentie 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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Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis Presenting as Chest Pain: A Case Report
title Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis Presenting as Chest Pain: A Case Report
title_full Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis Presenting as Chest Pain: A Case Report
title_fullStr Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis Presenting as Chest Pain: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis Presenting as Chest Pain: A Case Report
title_short Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis Presenting as Chest Pain: A Case Report
title_sort granulomatosis with polyangiitis presenting as chest pain: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10224739/
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