Methamphetamine‐induced renal pseudovasculitis: Suspicion is the key

It is important to recognize drug‐induced vasculitis as patients with true vasculitis often require immunosuppressive therapy and delay in treatment can result in significant mortality. Illicit drug use (specifically methamphetamine and cocaine) should be in the differential diagnosis of vasculitis...

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Autores principales: Chamarthi, Gajapathiraju, Lee Loy, Justin, Koratala, Abhilash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6389488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30847211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1976
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spelling pubmed-63894882019-03-07 Methamphetamine‐induced renal pseudovasculitis: Suspicion is the key Chamarthi, Gajapathiraju Lee Loy, Justin Koratala, Abhilash Clin Case Rep Clinical Images It is important to recognize drug‐induced vasculitis as patients with true vasculitis often require immunosuppressive therapy and delay in treatment can result in significant mortality. Illicit drug use (specifically methamphetamine and cocaine) should be in the differential diagnosis of vasculitis as it typically resolves with cessation of the drug. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6389488/ /pubmed/30847211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1976 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Chamarthi, Gajapathiraju
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Koratala, Abhilash
Methamphetamine‐induced renal pseudovasculitis: Suspicion is the key
title Methamphetamine‐induced renal pseudovasculitis: Suspicion is the key
title_full Methamphetamine‐induced renal pseudovasculitis: Suspicion is the key
title_fullStr Methamphetamine‐induced renal pseudovasculitis: Suspicion is the key
title_full_unstemmed Methamphetamine‐induced renal pseudovasculitis: Suspicion is the key
title_short Methamphetamine‐induced renal pseudovasculitis: Suspicion is the key
title_sort methamphetamine‐induced renal pseudovasculitis: suspicion is the key
topic Clinical Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6389488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30847211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1976
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