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Case Report: Uncommon Complications in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis

Logan Oliver, MD, & Jason J. Weiner, MD, FACP, FACR  |  

Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) associated vasculitis is a rare autoimmune condition characterized by inflammation of small- and medium-sized vessels. ANCA-associated vasculitis can lead to multisystem organ complications, including life-threatening pulmonary hemorrhage, renal failure and death. We present a case of ANCA-associated vasculitis complicated by complement-mediated thrombotic microangiopathy (c-TMA). Of the rheumatic diseases, systemic lupus erythematosus…

Case Report: Persistent Pruritic Plaques in Adult-Onset Still’s Disease

Kubra Bugdayli, MD, Ahmed Eldaboush, MD, Sanjana Aggarwal, MBBS, & Bonnie Bermas, MD  |  

Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a systemic autoinflammatory disorder characterized by persistent fever at regular intervals, arthralgias or arthritis, rash, sore throat and neutrophilic leukocytosis.1,2 Significant elevation in ferritin levels is characteristic and tends to correlate with disease activity. Additional clinical features may include myalgias, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, serositis, myocarditis, abnormal liver function tests and development…

Case Report: GPA or IgG4-Related Disease in an 11-Year-Old Girl?

Geoffrey E. Thiele, MD, & Sara Haro, MD  |  

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is a type of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) associated small vessel vasculitis that typically affects the kidneys, lungs and sinuses.1 Due to an overlap in signs and symptoms, GPA may initially be difficult to distinguish from IgG4-related disease, another condition that can affect multiple tissues and has variable presentations. Further complicating…

Case Report: World Trade Center Dust Stokes a Foreign Body Reaction

Branden Ireifej, MD, Lea Meir, MD, Emily Gutowski, MD, Hansen Lam, MD, & Wei Wei Chi, MD  |  

The terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center (WTC) that led to their destruction on Sept. 11, 2001, as well as the subsequent year-long cleanup of the site (i.e., Ground Zero) in 2001 and 2002, not only had immediate implications for the lives and health of thousands of individuals at the…

Case Report: Lupus Nephritis or a Mimic?

Matthew J. Mandell, DO, Yishui Chen, MD, Prerna Rastogi, MD, PhD, & Rebecca Tuetken, MD, PhD  |  

Syphilis, an ancient disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum, has been historically referred to as the great mimicker given its heterogenous presentation. Both systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and syphilis can have multi-systemic involve­ment. Both parvovirus B19 and syphilis have been reported to cause histologic features similar to those seen in lupus nephritis.  We present…

A Case of Nodular Rash & Painful Joints

Vania Lin, MD, MPH, Rebecca Johnson, MD, & Lisa Suter, MD  |  

Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a necrotizing vasculitis, predominantly involving medium-sized arteries, that causes systemic disease, and, less commonly, cutaneous-limited disease. The population prevalence for PAN ranges from 2 to 33 per million.1-3 Estimates vary due to the increased recognition and classification of other forms of vasculitides over time and variation in the regional prevalence of…

Case Report: Sweet Syndrome as an Initial Presentation of Crohn’s Disease

Ryan Guerrettaz, MD, Angelo Ciliberti, MD, Rochella Ostrowski, MD, Elise Wolff, DO, Nadia Qureshi, MD, & Ramzan Shahid, MD  |  

Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, or Sweet syndrome, is an inflammatory disease that classically presents with fever, leukocytosis and tender, erythematous plaques characterized by neutrophilic infiltrates on biopsy. Sweet syndrome has been reported in association with several autoimmune diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, systemic lupus erythematous, rheumatoid arthritis and sarcoidosis.1 Here, we discuss a case of…

Case Report: Intermittent Fevers in a Patient with pJIA

Osman Bhatty, MD, Dale Kobrin, MD, Lauren Mathos, DO, Nazia Khatoon, MD, Yazan Samhouri, MD, Naga Sai Krishna Patibandla, MD, & Mary Chester Wasko, MD, MSc  |  

A 26-year-old woman presented to our emergency department (ED) with intermittent fevers, nausea and vomiting. She had a past medical history of well-controlled, anti-nuclear antibody positive and rheumatoid factor negative polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pJIA) and Crohn’s disease. Her maintenance treatment consisted of monthly intravenous infliximab, 10 mg of oral methotrexate weekly and 20 mg…

Medium-sized blood vessels are seen in the dermis and at the dermal-subcutaneous junction. The black arrow identifies a venule, and the blue arrow points to a fibrin deposition in the vessel wall. Extravasated neutrophils and erythrocytes are seen in the interstitium.

Case Report: A Polyarteritis Nodosa Conundrum

Hannah Krebsbach, MD, Ileannette Robledo Vega, MD, Nirupa Patel, MD, & Nkechinyere Emejuaiwe, MD, MPH  |  

Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a systemic necrotizing vasculitis that typically affects medium-sized muscular arteries. The clinical subsets of PAN are idiopathic, generalized, secondary hepatitis B virus (HBV) associated and cutaneous PAN. These clinical subsets are important because of their therapeutic implications. Virtually any organ system can be affected in generalized PAN, but this vasculitis tends…