PATIENT Female, 10 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Polyangiitis Symptoms: Intracranial hemorrhage • swelling • oliguria MEDICATION Cyclophosphamide • prednisolone Clinical Procedure: Plasmapheresis Specialty: Paediatric nephrology • nephrology • paediatrics. OBJECTIVE Rare disease. BACKGROUND MPO ANCA-associated vasculitis is very rare in children. Renal disease is almost universally present but lung an...

Sildenafil is one of the most commonly used drugs for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. To date, we found five reported cases of intracerebral bleeding and two reported cases of subarachnoid hemorrhage related to sildenafil use. We report a 49-year-old hypertensive and diabetic patient who presented with acute pulmonary edema and loss of consciousness following ingestion of 100 mg of silde...

Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) syndrome has a mortality rate of 30 to 60%. A 15-year-old male patient presented with seven-day abdominal pain, vomiting, non-dysenteric diarrhea, conjunctival injection, and fever. Chest radiography revealed bilateral interstitial infiltrates predominating in the lower left lobe. The patient’s condition worsened within hours, development massive hemoptysis, ac...

Numerous adverse effects follow anabolic agent abuse. Pulmonary hemorrhage is not considered one of them. We present two cases of young male bodybuilders who developed diffuse alveolar bleeding as a result of anabolic steroid abuse. Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage associated with anabolic agent abuse has not been described previously in the literature. Both patients developed acute dyspnea and hemo...