polyarteritis nodosa is a multisystem necrotizing vasculitis of small and medium size muscular arteries in which involvement of the renal and viserat arteries is characteristic. the etiology is unknown but hepatitis b antigenemia is found in 30% of patients. drug exposures and hypersensitivity reactions are other possible causes. excellent therapeutic results have been reported in classic polya...

Polyarteritis nodosa is a necrotizing vasculitis of medium-sized arteries of unknown origin. Hypertension is present in 30% of patients with polyarteritis nodosa. In those cases, high renin levels are thought to be secondary to renal involvement. The present study was performed to identify causal factors of polyarteritis nodosa. In cyp1a1ren-2 transgenic rats, vasculitis of medium-sized arterie...

INTRODUCTION Polyarteritis nodosa is a rare disease resulting from blood vessel inflammation (vasculitis), causing damage to organ systems and featuring an extended range of possible symptoms. The cause of polyarteritis nodosa is unknown. CASE PRESENTATION In the present report we describe the presentation and treatment of polyarteritis nodosa involving the hard palate in an 88-year-old Cauca...

INTRODUCTION Hepatitis C virus has been under-recognized as an etiologic factor for polyarteritis nodosa and the presence of hepatitis C antigenemia in patients with polyarteritis nodosa has been reported as insignificant. In the literature hepatitis C virus-associated polyarteritis nodosa is a rare and controversial entity. CASE PRESENTATION A 34-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil man presented to ou...

POLYARTERITIS nodosa (periarteritis nodosa), first described by Kussmaul and Maier (1866), is a relatively rare disease, but considerable attention has been paid to it in recent years. Duke-Elder (1962), describing the condition, wrote: "this is a disseminated disease of obscure cause characterized by necrosing obliterative lesions of small arteries and arterioles which appear nodular owing to ...

Seckel syndrome is a rare genetic disorder with a typical "bird-headed" appearance. It could affect many organ systems but renal involvement is uncommon. Polyarteritis nodosa is systemic vasculitic disorder which also involves kidneys. We report a case of Seckel syndrome in a 9 year-old boy with renal involvement due to polyarteritis nodosa. According to the literature, this is the first report...

We report localized polyarteritis nodosa in a 31-year-old man who had painful nodules in the left forearm and scrotum. Histopathological findings of both tissues revealed distinct arteritis. However, he had no clinical evidence of any systemic disease. We finally diagnosed this case as a localized polyarteritis nodosa occurring in both the left forearm and epididymis. This form of polyarteritis...

Adjuvant medical treatment steroid therapy of polyarteritis nodosa. Specific treatments are sometimes required. 55: 146–155 renal vasculitis. Angiotensin converting enzyme inhib-10. Guillevin L, Jarrousse B, Lok C et al. Long-term followup after itors or angiotensin II-receptor blockers are effective treatment of polyarteritis nodosa and Churg–Strauss angiitis and able to control severe or mali...

Cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa is an infrequent necrotizing vasculitis of small and medium-sized arteries, with a recurrent and chronic course, that can be associated with fever, arthralgia, myalgia and neuropathy without visceral involvement. We report a cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa case.

Aortic diseases have high mortality and are usually late or misdiagnosed. Especially in patients with inflammatory vasculitis, diagnosis is often confused other causes of chest pain this a delay diagnosis. Vascular complications the most important predictors morbidity Behcet’s disease also polyarteritis nodosa. The aortitis obtained by vascular imaging, but partly made only biopsy on occasion a...