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Histiocytosis X and Pericarditis - A Rare Association and a Difficult Diagnosis

Histiocytic disorders are a group of rare diseases with systemic involvement and with multiple clinical manifestations. We present the case of a 51 years old patient investigated for dyspnea with orthopnea, dry cough, asthenia, muscular weakness and ataxia. The association of previous symptoms with...

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Autores principales: TICA, I., SECELEANU, M., TICA, A.A., TICA, V.I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medical University Publishing House Craiova 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6269612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30581598
http://dx.doi.org/10.12865/CHSJ.42.04.13
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description Histiocytic disorders are a group of rare diseases with systemic involvement and with multiple clinical manifestations. We present the case of a 51 years old patient investigated for dyspnea with orthopnea, dry cough, asthenia, muscular weakness and ataxia. The association of previous symptoms with skin lesions, diabetes insipidus, partial hypophyseal insufficiency and pericarditis induced many diagnostic debates. The diagnosis is Histiocytosis X must be sustained by tissue biopsy with immunohistochemical assay or genetic testing. The particularity of our patient is the presence of pericarditis, rarely associated with histiocytosis. Collaboration between medical specialties is mandatory in order to treat this disorder.
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spelling pubmed-62696122018-12-21 Histiocytosis X and Pericarditis - A Rare Association and a Difficult Diagnosis TICA, I. SECELEANU, M. TICA, A.A. TICA, V.I. Curr Health Sci J Case Report Histiocytic disorders are a group of rare diseases with systemic involvement and with multiple clinical manifestations. We present the case of a 51 years old patient investigated for dyspnea with orthopnea, dry cough, asthenia, muscular weakness and ataxia. The association of previous symptoms with skin lesions, diabetes insipidus, partial hypophyseal insufficiency and pericarditis induced many diagnostic debates. The diagnosis is Histiocytosis X must be sustained by tissue biopsy with immunohistochemical assay or genetic testing. The particularity of our patient is the presence of pericarditis, rarely associated with histiocytosis. Collaboration between medical specialties is mandatory in order to treat this disorder. Medical University Publishing House Craiova 2016 2016-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6269612/ /pubmed/30581598 http://dx.doi.org/10.12865/CHSJ.42.04.13 Text en Copyright © 2016, Medical University Publishing House Craiova http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License, which permits unrestricted use, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium, non-commercially, provided the new creations are licensed under identical terms as the original work and the original work is properly cited.
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