title: Sneddon's syndrome: a vascular systemic disease with kidney involvement?
abstract: Sneddon's syndrome is a systemic disease characterized by livedo reticularis and cerebrovascular disease. Other organs may be involved as well. Typical vascular lesions in the skin biopsy and/or digital arteries biopsy can be found. Arterial hypertension, cardiac pathology (ischemic disease, myocardial infarction, valvulopathy), venous thrombosis and even fetal death are also found sometimes. We present a case of Sneddon's syndrome in which typical vascular lesions in the kidney were demonstrated for the first time unequivocally confirming the systemic nature of this syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Renal Unit, University Hospital of Coimbra, Portugal.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Macário
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Macário
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferro
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gonçalves
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marques
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000652:urine; D011507:Proteinuria / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000652:urine; D018860:Sneddon Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology