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Upper Respiratory Tract Symptoms, Renal Involvement and Vasculitis: A Case Report and Review of Wegener Granulomatosis
Wegener’s Granulomatosis is a condition associated with systemic vasculitis which can present with upper respiratory tract symptoms initially. On September 2001, a 15-year-old girl presented with symptoms of nasal block for 3 weeks. She later developed joint pains and worsening renal status requirin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3104653/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21629538 http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr412w |
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author | Said, Mohd Shahrir Mohamed |
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description | Wegener’s Granulomatosis is a condition associated with systemic vasculitis which can present with upper respiratory tract symptoms initially. On September 2001, a 15-year-old girl presented with symptoms of nasal block for 3 weeks. She later developed joint pains and worsening renal status requiring dialysis. A renal biopsy was performed which showed pauci-immune cresentric glomerulonephritis. Her cANCA levels were positive. She was treated with oral cyclophosphamide and steroids and later responded. KEYWORDS: Wegener granulomatosis; Young girl; Cyclophophamide; cANCA |
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spelling | pubmed-31046532011-05-31 Upper Respiratory Tract Symptoms, Renal Involvement and Vasculitis: A Case Report and Review of Wegener Granulomatosis Said, Mohd Shahrir Mohamed J Clin Med Res Case Report Wegener’s Granulomatosis is a condition associated with systemic vasculitis which can present with upper respiratory tract symptoms initially. On September 2001, a 15-year-old girl presented with symptoms of nasal block for 3 weeks. She later developed joint pains and worsening renal status requiring dialysis. A renal biopsy was performed which showed pauci-immune cresentric glomerulonephritis. Her cANCA levels were positive. She was treated with oral cyclophosphamide and steroids and later responded. KEYWORDS: Wegener granulomatosis; Young girl; Cyclophophamide; cANCA Elmer Press 2010-08 2010-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3104653/ /pubmed/21629538 http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr412w Text en Copyright © 2010, Said et al. 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 Said, Mohd Shahrir Mohamed Upper Respiratory Tract Symptoms, Renal Involvement and Vasculitis: A Case Report and Review of Wegener Granulomatosis |
title | Upper Respiratory Tract Symptoms, Renal Involvement and Vasculitis: A Case Report and Review of Wegener Granulomatosis |
title_full | Upper Respiratory Tract Symptoms, Renal Involvement and Vasculitis: A Case Report and Review of Wegener Granulomatosis |
title_fullStr | Upper Respiratory Tract Symptoms, Renal Involvement and Vasculitis: A Case Report and Review of Wegener Granulomatosis |
title_full_unstemmed | Upper Respiratory Tract Symptoms, Renal Involvement and Vasculitis: A Case Report and Review of Wegener Granulomatosis |
title_short | Upper Respiratory Tract Symptoms, Renal Involvement and Vasculitis: A Case Report and Review of Wegener Granulomatosis |
title_sort | upper respiratory tract symptoms, renal involvement and vasculitis: a case report and review of wegener granulomatosis |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3104653/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21629538 http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr412w |
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