Chest pain is one of the most frequent patient's complaints. The commonest underlying causes are well known, but, sometimes, in some clinical scenarios, it is necessary to consider other diagnoses. We report a case of a 68-year-old Caucasian male, chronically hypertensive, who complained of recurrent episodes of chest pain and fever with elevated acute phase reactants. The first investigation w...

Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a chronic vasculitis that affects the aortic arch and its primary branches. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease of unknown etiology. Patients diagnosed with both TA and UC have rarely been reported. The pathogenesis of TA and UC is uncertain, but cell-mediated mechanisms play an important role in both diseases, and a genetic factor is thought to h...

Writing in the journal Current Opinion in Rheumatology Turkish researchers review the current literature on gastrointestinal involvement in different types of vasculitis. They address the variability of gastrointestinal involvement and of clinical findings, as well as treatment. An inflammatory bowel disease diagnosis usually precedes a diagnosis of vasculitis. A systematic review of the litera...

OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence and clinical features of paediatric primary vasculitis in patients from one centre in Eastern China. METHODS Medical records of paediatric patients diagnosed with primary vasculitis between January 1999 and December 2013 were retrospectively reviewed. For Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) and Kawasaki disease (KD), patients included in the analyses had data ...