Minocycline induced arthritis associated with fever, livedo reticularis, and pANCA.

Minocycline-induced lupus. A systematic review.

BACKGROUND Minocycline has increasingly been associated with different adverse auto-immune reactions including drug-induced lupus. OBJECTIVE To identify the scope of minocycline-induced lupus and to characterise its typical features. METHODS Comprehensive Medline and Embase search of the English and non-English literature for case reports of minocycline-induced lupus. RESULTS We included ...

Minocycline-induced autoimmune syndromes: an overview.

OBJECTIVE To increase awareness of minocycline-induced autoimmune syndromes. METHODS Review of relevant publications from the American and European literature. RESULTS Four minocycline-induced syndromes have been described in 82 patients: serum sickness, drug-induced lupus, autoimmune hepatitis, and vasculitis. Aside from sporadic cases of serum sickness, all other syndromes occurred in pat...

Fulminant skin necrosis and massive deep venous thrombosis as a part of a clinical presentation of polyarteritis nodosa -case report

Methods We report the case of 8 year old boy who was referred to our hospital with 11 days history of high fever (39.5°C), fatigue, anorexia and weight loss. Two days prior to admission he began to complain of pain in the calves muscles, developed petechial skin rash and hematomas, gross haematuria and gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. At admission was febrile, in very poor condition, hyperventil...

A case with febrile attacks and vasculopathy associated with ADA2 and MEFV gene mutations

Case A patient with juvenile onset recurrent febrile attacks associated with familial polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) and who carries CECR1 and MEFVgene mutations is described. The index case, a 23 year old male patient with recurrent attacks of fever and arthritis since the age of 7 was diagnosed initially as Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF). A beneficial response to treatment with colchicine was...

Low grade fever, back pain and livedo reticularis in a 60-year-old man.