A case of polyarteritis nodosa in the first year of life with the clinical picture dominated by pyrexia, an initial upper respiratory element, episodes of tachycardia, and sudden death three weeks after the onset is described. The necropsy showed evidence of polyarteritis nodosa, myocarditis, and valvulitis as well as congenital pyloric hypertrophy. Clinical manifestations of the latter had pre...

Vasculitides are a heterogeneous group of more than 20 diseases defined by inflammation and destruction of blood vessels. We aimed to study the demographic characteristics of the primary vasculitides in the North East of Iran. We retrospectively studied the medical records of patients diagnosed with any kind of vasculitis at the Clinic and Department of Rheumatology of the Imam Reza Hospital, M...

Results 197 new cases of PSV were diagnosed during these years – HSP in 154, KD in 35, Churg-Staruss syndrome in 2, and polyarteritis nodosa in 3 cases, respectively. Wegener granulomatosis, microscopic polyangiitis and hypocomplementaemic urticarial vasculitis were all diagnosed in one patient. The age distribution ranged from 3 months to 16 years, in cases of KD – from 2 months to 13 years. 3...

Indications of plasma exchanges for systemic vasculitides are well delineated according to the results of therapeutic trials undergone during the past decades. In combination with antiviral agents and/or immunosuppressants, plasma exchanges appear to be essential in the treatment of HBV-related polyarteritis nodosa; pauci-immune glomerulonephritis, kidney-limited or as a feature of Wegener’s gr...

82 per cent out of a total white cell count of 22,300|c.mm. from Tong King, China. Bass (1941) refers to 7 cases with a similar picture from America and Havana. Ritchie (1944) describes tropical eosinophilia in an African patient from Tanganyika. Parsons-Smith (1944) reports it in an English airman after 10 months' stay in Egypt. Treu (1944) mentions it in a Chinese patient from Singapore. McGu...

To cite: Andrade CA dos S, Vasconcelos A, Pinto JC. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2015-209564 DESCRIPTION Polyarteritis nodosa is a systemic necrotising vasculitis involving the small and medium arteries. Men aged between 40 and 60 years are more frequently affected and histological evidence of vasculitis in the involved organs is necessary for ...

OCULAR manifestations of polyarteritis nodosa are well recognized. Changes in the choroidal, ciliary, orbital, and retinal vessels have all been described (Duke-Elder and Dobree, 1967). Hitherto, the retinopathy of this condition has been described on the basis of ophthalmoscopic and pathological appearances. The technique of fluorescein fundus photography is particularly well suited to the inv...