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Polyarteritis presenting with leg pains.
Polyarteritis (polyarteritis nodosa) is a multi-system connective tissue disorder involving small and medium-sized arteries throughout the body. Occasionally, however, the condition is clinically localized to a few systems, such as skin and muscle, and it appears that in these circumstances the disease often follows a relatively benign course (Rose, 1957; Rotstein and Good, 1958). In this paper...
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The frequency and nature of exertion pains of the leg in athletes were studied in 2,750 cases of overuse injuries treated at the Sports Clinic of the Deaconess Institute of Oulu, Finland, during the years 1972-1977. 465 cases of exertion pain (18%) were located in the shin. The medial tibial syndrome was the most common overuse injury among these athletes, comprising 9.5% of all exertion injuri...
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Background Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a medium vessel vasculitis which causes significant morbidity and mortality. Usually, it presents with constitutional symptoms with angiographic evidence of aneurysms or segmental stenosis of arteries of mesenteric or renal vasculature. It is exceedingly uncommon for PAN to present with symptomatic progressive intermittent claudication. Case Presentati...
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Peripheral gangrene is one of the rarest presenting features in polyarteritis nodosa. A man with paralysed right upper and left lower limbs following poliomyelitis in infancy was admitted to hospital with supraventricular tachycardia and peripheral gangrene in the non-involved extremities. In an attempt to relieve the severe foot pain following an exacerbation of the arteritis, intermittent epi...
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INTRODUCTION To the best of our knowledge, we describe for the first time a patient in whom an unusual metabolic myopathy was identified after failure to respond to curative therapy for a systemic vasculitis, polyarteritis nodosa. We hope this report will heighten awareness of common metabolic myopathies that may present later in life. It also speculates on the potential relationship between me...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1970
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5691.277