Gastroenterology

Vasculitis

Questions discussed in this category

How would you approach management of a patient with a medium-to-large vessel vasculitis who developed perforation of the stomach and colon on steroids and cyclophosphamide?

Vasculitis involving aorta, subclavian, common carotid, SMA, IMA, renal artery, and celiac artery.

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How would you approach additional workup and management of a patient with active Crohn’s disease, who has multiple lung and brain nodules, with lung pathology demonstrating necrotizing granulomatous inflammation and brain biopsy with granulomatous inflammation and medium-large vessel vasculitis?

The patient is on mesalamine for Crohn’s and CellCept and HCQ for skin manifestations (currently on hold during workup). The infectious workup i...

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How would you approach new-onset large vessel vasculitis in a young patient with Crohn's disease?

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Papers discussed in this category

Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism, 2016-02

Vasculitis in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases: A study of 32 patients and systematic review of the literature.

Bull Soc Ophtalmol Fr,

[Uveal effusion syndrome secondary to orbital cellulitis].

Am J Hum Genet, 2021 Jan 7

Identification of susceptibility loci for Takayasu arteritis through a large multi-ancestral genome-wide association study.

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