Hepatitis-B-antigenemia with panarteritis, diffuse proliferative glomerulitis and malignant hypertension.
Fatal, rapidly progressive malignant hypertension, progressive renal failure and radiographic evidence of diffuse angitis, with persistent hepatitis-B-antigenemia, in a young man during his early recovery from documented type B viral hepatitis, is presented. At postmortem there was both light and electron microscopic evidence of systemic arteritis and proliferative glomerulonephritis.
D000328:Adult; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology; D006511:Hepatitis B Antigens / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D006974:Hypertension, Malignant / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008297:Male; D008638:Mesenteric Arteries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010488:Polyarteritis Nodosa / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging
D006511:Hepatitis B Antigens