Polyvisceral arteritis in chronic graft-versus-host disease: antiphospholipid-negative thrombotic syndrome mimicking polyarteritis nodosa.
A case of polyarteritis is reported in an 18-year old woman, occurring 2 years after an allogeneic bone marrow transplant. The clinical manifestations were similar to those of polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) with a wide range of organs involved including life-threatening cardiac and mesenteric problems requiring plasmapheresis and intravenous immunoglobulin (IgIV).
Ysebaert
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Service d'Hématologie, CHU Bocage, Dijon, France.
Deconinck
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Larosa
F
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Caillot
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D
Tiberghien
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Casasnovas
R O
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Cahn
J Y
JY
D000293:Adolescent; D001167:Arteritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000628:therapy; D010488:Polyarteritis Nodosa / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous