Giant cell arteritis with gangrene in a child.
After an episode of abacterial meningitis in a 5-year-old boy there developed splenomegaly, uveitis, and a granulomatous arteritis of the lower limbs requiring amputation of one leg. Immune complexes persist in the blood, but the precise antigenic stimulus remains conjectural.
D000367:Age Factors; D000671:Amputation, Surgical; D000936:Antigen-Antibody Complex; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005734:Gangrene / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D013700:Giant Cell Arteritis / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
D000936:Antigen-Antibody Complex