Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis: An East African Diagnostic Challenge

Retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF) is a rare disease with variable etiology characterized by chronic inflammation and fibrosis of tissue surrounding the abdominal aorta and iliac arteries. The majority of cases of RPF remain idiopathic and mostly reported in men. Glucocorticoids remain key in the treatm...

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Autores principales: Ali, Sayed K, Du, Katie, Orare, Kelvin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8281799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34277272
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15683
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description Retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF) is a rare disease with variable etiology characterized by chronic inflammation and fibrosis of tissue surrounding the abdominal aorta and iliac arteries. The majority of cases of RPF remain idiopathic and mostly reported in men. Glucocorticoids remain key in the treatment of RPF. Little has been reported on RPF in sub-Saharan Africa.
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spelling pubmed-82817992021-07-16 Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis: An East African Diagnostic Challenge Ali, Sayed K Du, Katie Orare, Kelvin Cureus Internal Medicine Retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF) is a rare disease with variable etiology characterized by chronic inflammation and fibrosis of tissue surrounding the abdominal aorta and iliac arteries. The majority of cases of RPF remain idiopathic and mostly reported in men. Glucocorticoids remain key in the treatment of RPF. Little has been reported on RPF in sub-Saharan Africa. Cureus 2021-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8281799/ /pubmed/34277272 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15683 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ali et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/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 author and source are credited.
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Ali, Sayed K
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Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis: An East African Diagnostic Challenge
title Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis: An East African Diagnostic Challenge
title_full Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis: An East African Diagnostic Challenge
title_fullStr Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis: An East African Diagnostic Challenge
title_full_unstemmed Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis: An East African Diagnostic Challenge
title_short Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis: An East African Diagnostic Challenge
title_sort idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis: an east african diagnostic challenge
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8281799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34277272
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15683
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