An adolescent with both Wegener's Granulomatosis and chronic blastomycosis

We report a case of Wegener's Granulomatosis (WG) associated with blastomycosis. This appears to be the first case report of WG co-existing with a tissue proven blastomycosis infection. The temporal correlation of the two conditions suggests that blastomycosis infection (and therefore possibly...

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Autores principales: Abdwani, Reem, Houghton, Kristin, Dobson, Simon, O' Sullivan, Maureen, Malleson, Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2518148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18673582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-6-13
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author Abdwani, Reem
Houghton, Kristin
Dobson, Simon
O' Sullivan, Maureen
Malleson, Peter
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description We report a case of Wegener's Granulomatosis (WG) associated with blastomycosis. This appears to be the first case report of WG co-existing with a tissue proven blastomycosis infection. The temporal correlation of the two conditions suggests that blastomycosis infection (and therefore possibly other fungal infections), may trigger the systemic granulomatous vasculitis in a predisposed individual; a provocative supposition warranting further study.
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spelling pubmed-25181482008-08-20 An adolescent with both Wegener's Granulomatosis and chronic blastomycosis Abdwani, Reem Houghton, Kristin Dobson, Simon O' Sullivan, Maureen Malleson, Peter Pediatr Rheumatol Online J Case Report We report a case of Wegener's Granulomatosis (WG) associated with blastomycosis. This appears to be the first case report of WG co-existing with a tissue proven blastomycosis infection. The temporal correlation of the two conditions suggests that blastomycosis infection (and therefore possibly other fungal infections), may trigger the systemic granulomatous vasculitis in a predisposed individual; a provocative supposition warranting further study. BioMed Central 2008-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2518148/ /pubmed/18673582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-6-13 Text en Copyright © 2008 Abdwani et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Abdwani, Reem
Houghton, Kristin
Dobson, Simon
O' Sullivan, Maureen
Malleson, Peter
An adolescent with both Wegener's Granulomatosis and chronic blastomycosis
title An adolescent with both Wegener's Granulomatosis and chronic blastomycosis
title_full An adolescent with both Wegener's Granulomatosis and chronic blastomycosis
title_fullStr An adolescent with both Wegener's Granulomatosis and chronic blastomycosis
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title_short An adolescent with both Wegener's Granulomatosis and chronic blastomycosis
title_sort adolescent with both wegener's granulomatosis and chronic blastomycosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2518148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18673582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-6-13
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