Systemic hypersensitivity vasculitis associated with bronchiectasis.
Systemic hypersensitivity vasculitis developed in a 53-year-old man during acute exacerbation of bronchiectasis infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. High grade fever, mononeuropathy multiplex, cutaneous vasculitis, and biopsy specimen-proved mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis with crescent formation and leukocytoclastic vasculitis associated with circulating immune complex occurred. Corticosteroid and cyclophosphamide therapy was effective for vasculitis and bronchiectasis.
Tanaka
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Department of Infection and Inflammation, First Clinic of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
Tada
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Amitani
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Kuze
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D000208:Acute Disease; D001706:Biopsy; D001987:Bronchiectasis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D015432:Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D006192:Haemophilus Infections / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D006193:Haemophilus influenzae; D006801:Humans; D007105:Immune Complex Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D018366:Vasculitis, Leukocytoclastic, Cutaneous / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology