Cutaneous Vasculitis and Pulmonary Symptoms
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A 45-year-old Japanese man with Sjogren's syndrome developed recurrent skin ulcers, palpable purpura, and dyspnea. Serum mixed-type cryoglobulin level was elevated. A biopsy of his skin lesion showedthe characteristic leukocytoclastic vasculitis of mixed-type cryoglobulinemia. Dyspnea, skin ulcers, and purpura resolved along with a reduction in the serum cryoglobulin level after prednisolone administration. This patient demonstrated cryoglobulinemia-associated vasculitis, as well as possible cryoglobulinemia-associated pulmonary symptoms. (Internal Medicine 36: 62-67, 1997)
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