HIV associated systemic necrotizing vasculitis.
The spectrum of HIV associated rheumatic syndromes continues to expand as does our experience with the disease. The following is a case of HIV associated systemic necrotizing vasculitis documented by rectal biopsy. The patient was treated successfully with corticosteroids alone, and after 9 months of followup has no evidence of progression to frank AIDS.
Valeriano-Marcet
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Mount Sinai Medical Center, Department of Rheumatology, New York, NY 10029.
Ravichandran
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Kerr
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D000328:Adult; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009336:Necrosis; D010488:Polyarteritis Nodosa / Q000150:complications