Relapsing Polyarteritis Nodosa: An impasse?
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Polyarteritis nodosa with a chronic relapsing course
Polyarteritis nodosa is a medium artery vasculitis that can cause fatal complications. It commonly follows an acute monophasic course that may remit after treatment or cause serious morbidity or death. A 24-year-old patient described here had many vasculitic episodes in the past 16 years causing infarction of different organs. The last episode was most serious which caused mononeuritis multiple...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Rheumatology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0973-3698
DOI: 10.1016/j.injr.2014.10.023