Streptococcus-associated vasculitis: A role for antibiotic therapy?

Numerous post-Streptococcal syndromes (PSS) have been described in the literature. The role of antibiotic therapy in the management of PSS is best established with acute rheumatic fever. We present a patient with streptococcus-associated medium vessel vasculitis with multiple flares despite immunosu...

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Autores principales: Saad, Ramy, Tsoi, Kevin, Onac, Ioana Anamaria, Davies, Kevin A., Hajela, Vijay Kumar, Tacu, Cristina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985411/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33777696
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01071
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author Saad, Ramy
Tsoi, Kevin
Onac, Ioana Anamaria
Davies, Kevin A.
Hajela, Vijay Kumar
Tacu, Cristina
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Tsoi, Kevin
Onac, Ioana Anamaria
Davies, Kevin A.
Hajela, Vijay Kumar
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description Numerous post-Streptococcal syndromes (PSS) have been described in the literature. The role of antibiotic therapy in the management of PSS is best established with acute rheumatic fever. We present a patient with streptococcus-associated medium vessel vasculitis with multiple flares despite immunosuppressive therapy that achieved a sustained remission with long term oral penicillin V 250 mg twice daily.
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spelling pubmed-79854112021-03-25 Streptococcus-associated vasculitis: A role for antibiotic therapy? Saad, Ramy Tsoi, Kevin Onac, Ioana Anamaria Davies, Kevin A. Hajela, Vijay Kumar Tacu, Cristina IDCases Case Report Numerous post-Streptococcal syndromes (PSS) have been described in the literature. The role of antibiotic therapy in the management of PSS is best established with acute rheumatic fever. We present a patient with streptococcus-associated medium vessel vasculitis with multiple flares despite immunosuppressive therapy that achieved a sustained remission with long term oral penicillin V 250 mg twice daily. Elsevier 2021-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7985411/ /pubmed/33777696 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01071 Text en © 2021 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Saad, Ramy
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Streptococcus-associated vasculitis: A role for antibiotic therapy?
title Streptococcus-associated vasculitis: A role for antibiotic therapy?
title_full Streptococcus-associated vasculitis: A role for antibiotic therapy?
title_fullStr Streptococcus-associated vasculitis: A role for antibiotic therapy?
title_full_unstemmed Streptococcus-associated vasculitis: A role for antibiotic therapy?
title_short Streptococcus-associated vasculitis: A role for antibiotic therapy?
title_sort streptococcus-associated vasculitis: a role for antibiotic therapy?
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985411/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33777696
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01071
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