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Multiple Splenic Infarctions Complicating Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
- Source :
- Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology, Vol 98, Iss 3, Pp 129-130 (2015), Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology; Vol 98, No 3 (2015); 129-130, JBR-BTR (Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology), Vol. 98, no.3, p. 129 (2015)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Background: A 57-year-old patient was admitted for high-grade fever, asthenia, sweating, dry cough and diffuse arthro-myalgias. Two years earlier, elevated titers of anticytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) of anti-proteinase 3 specificity and renal biopsy led to a diagnosis of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) with lung and renal involvement. GPA was treated by steroids, cyclophosphamide and rituximab with subsequent clinical and biological remission. The current chest CT scan was performed for a lung opacity that eventually was proved to be an organising pneumonia. CT also showed an unsuspected pattern of the spleen that was compared with a previous chest CT.
- Subjects :
- lcsh:Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Lung
medicine.diagnostic_test
Cyclophosphamide
Wegener granulomatosis
business.industry
Dry cough
lcsh:R895-920
Spleen
medicine.disease
respiratory tract diseases
Organising pneumonia
medicine.anatomical_structure
medicine
Rituximab
Renal biopsy
Radiology
business
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03027430 and 17802393
- Volume :
- 98
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- JBR-BTR : organe de la Societe royale belge de radiologie (SRBR) = orgaan van de Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Radiologie (KBVR)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....230bb62d6d7f766a857effcd826fce06