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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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Autor principal: Said, Mohd Shahrir Mohamed
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2010
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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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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.
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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/
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