Giant Cell Arteritis in a 12-Year-Old Girl Presenting with Nephrotic Syndrome

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is rare in children. The kidneys are generally spared. We present a case of GCA in a 12-year-old girl with severe headache and tender scalp especially over the right temporal area. The right superficial temporal artery was cord like and nodular and the pulsations were bare...

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Autores principales: El-Sayed, Zeinab A., El-Awady, Hanaa M., Hassan, Zeinab E., Adham, Tamer M. H., Mostafa, Hossam M., Elhefnawy, Nadia G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25400969
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/491937
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author El-Sayed, Zeinab A.
El-Awady, Hanaa M.
Hassan, Zeinab E.
Adham, Tamer M. H.
Mostafa, Hossam M.
Elhefnawy, Nadia G.
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El-Awady, Hanaa M.
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description Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is rare in children. The kidneys are generally spared. We present a case of GCA in a 12-year-old girl with severe headache and tender scalp especially over the right temporal area. The right superficial temporal artery was cord like and nodular and the pulsations were barely felt. Several small tender nodular swellings were felt in the occipital area. She had been previously diagnosed as a case of nephrotic syndrome due to underlying membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis. This report is aimed at drawing attention to this rare form of vasculitis in children aiming at decreasing its morbidities.
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spelling pubmed-42219702014-11-16 Giant Cell Arteritis in a 12-Year-Old Girl Presenting with Nephrotic Syndrome El-Sayed, Zeinab A. El-Awady, Hanaa M. Hassan, Zeinab E. Adham, Tamer M. H. Mostafa, Hossam M. Elhefnawy, Nadia G. Case Rep Rheumatol Case Report Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is rare in children. The kidneys are generally spared. We present a case of GCA in a 12-year-old girl with severe headache and tender scalp especially over the right temporal area. The right superficial temporal artery was cord like and nodular and the pulsations were barely felt. Several small tender nodular swellings were felt in the occipital area. She had been previously diagnosed as a case of nephrotic syndrome due to underlying membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis. This report is aimed at drawing attention to this rare form of vasculitis in children aiming at decreasing its morbidities. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4221970/ /pubmed/25400969 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/491937 Text en Copyright © 2014 Zeinab A. El-Sayed et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Hassan, Zeinab E.
Adham, Tamer M. H.
Mostafa, Hossam M.
Elhefnawy, Nadia G.
Giant Cell Arteritis in a 12-Year-Old Girl Presenting with Nephrotic Syndrome
title Giant Cell Arteritis in a 12-Year-Old Girl Presenting with Nephrotic Syndrome
title_full Giant Cell Arteritis in a 12-Year-Old Girl Presenting with Nephrotic Syndrome
title_fullStr Giant Cell Arteritis in a 12-Year-Old Girl Presenting with Nephrotic Syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Giant Cell Arteritis in a 12-Year-Old Girl Presenting with Nephrotic Syndrome
title_short Giant Cell Arteritis in a 12-Year-Old Girl Presenting with Nephrotic Syndrome
title_sort giant cell arteritis in a 12-year-old girl presenting with nephrotic syndrome
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25400969
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/491937
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