A YOUNG LADY PRESENTED WITH LIMITED PULMONARY WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS

A 19 year old female college student presented with fever, dry cough, chest pain, blood tinged sputum with subsequent development of polyarthralgia with radiological evidence of bilateral multiple unevenly distributed pulmonary nodular opacities with cavitation. There was no other systemic involveme...

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Autores principales: Dey, Atin, Arunabha, Datta Chaudhuri, Sudipta, Pandit, Susmita, Kundu, Mita, Saha
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3019346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21264088
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.45286
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author Dey, Atin
Arunabha, Datta Chaudhuri
Sudipta, Pandit
Susmita, Kundu
Mita, Saha
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Arunabha, Datta Chaudhuri
Sudipta, Pandit
Susmita, Kundu
Mita, Saha
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description A 19 year old female college student presented with fever, dry cough, chest pain, blood tinged sputum with subsequent development of polyarthralgia with radiological evidence of bilateral multiple unevenly distributed pulmonary nodular opacities with cavitation. There was no other systemic involvement and the patient was cytoplasmic antineutrophil antibody (c-ANCA) positive with more than four times the normal upper limit of anti PR3 antibody. Excellent response to oral steroid with antimicrobial agent “trimethoprim – sulphamethoxazole” was noted.
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spelling pubmed-30193462011-01-24 A YOUNG LADY PRESENTED WITH LIMITED PULMONARY WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS Dey, Atin Arunabha, Datta Chaudhuri Sudipta, Pandit Susmita, Kundu Mita, Saha Lung India Case Report A 19 year old female college student presented with fever, dry cough, chest pain, blood tinged sputum with subsequent development of polyarthralgia with radiological evidence of bilateral multiple unevenly distributed pulmonary nodular opacities with cavitation. There was no other systemic involvement and the patient was cytoplasmic antineutrophil antibody (c-ANCA) positive with more than four times the normal upper limit of anti PR3 antibody. Excellent response to oral steroid with antimicrobial agent “trimethoprim – sulphamethoxazole” was noted. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC3019346/ /pubmed/21264088 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.45286 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Dey, Atin
Arunabha, Datta Chaudhuri
Sudipta, Pandit
Susmita, Kundu
Mita, Saha
A YOUNG LADY PRESENTED WITH LIMITED PULMONARY WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS
title A YOUNG LADY PRESENTED WITH LIMITED PULMONARY WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS
title_full A YOUNG LADY PRESENTED WITH LIMITED PULMONARY WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS
title_fullStr A YOUNG LADY PRESENTED WITH LIMITED PULMONARY WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS
title_full_unstemmed A YOUNG LADY PRESENTED WITH LIMITED PULMONARY WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS
title_short A YOUNG LADY PRESENTED WITH LIMITED PULMONARY WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS
title_sort young lady presented with limited pulmonary wegener's granulomatosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3019346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21264088
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.45286
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