Pregnancy in granulomatous vasculitis.

Pregnancy in granulomatous vasculitis.

OBJECTIVE To study the fetal and maternal outcome of pregnancy in patients with granulomatous vasculitis. METHODS Four pregnancies in two patients with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) and one patient with Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) were identified and followed in our specialised clinic for pregnancy and connective tissue diseases. RESULTS Three pregnancies ended with live babies and one wit...

Pulmonary hypertension and granulomatous vasculitis in sarcoidosis.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To examine the recent advancements of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical characteristics, radiographic studies, diagnostic modalities, treatment, and prognosis of pulmonary hypertension in sarcoidosis. RECENT FINDINGS A large retrospective study found 73.8% of patients with sarcoidosis listed for transplant had pulmonary hypertension. Several other studies found pul...

Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis in Pregnancy: A Case Report

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis is an inflammatory disease with unknown etiology. The clinical signs and mammograms of the disease can mimic breast cancer. The present study reports a case of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis in a pregnant woman. A 26-year-old woman, who was 24 weeks pregnant, felt a mass on her left breast. Biopsy of the mass revealed no evidence of malignancy. For treatment...

A Case of Tuberculous Granulomatous Panniculitis without Vasculitis

We report a case of tuberculous granulomatous panniculitis without vasculitis in an 87-year-old female patient with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. One month after starting chemotherapy with chlorambucil and prednisone she presented superficial erythematous plaques on the anterior side of the left leg. Three weeks later erythematous painless deep nodules appeared on the left popliteal fos...

Pregnancy in patient with cirrhosis and cryoglobulinemic vasculitis.