A case of familial Mediterranean fever and polyarteritis nodosa complicated by spontaneous perirenal and subcapsular hepatic hemorrhage requiring multiple arterial embolizations

Rheumatology International

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 60-64

  Akar, Servet ^a   Goktay, Yigit ^a   Akinci, Baris ^a   Tekis, Dilek ^a   Biberoglu, Kadir ^a   Birlik, Merih ^a   Onen, Fatos ^a   Tunca, Mehmet ^a   Akkoc, Nurullah ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Familial mediterranean fever; Intervention; Polyarteritis nodosa; Radiography

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMLODIPINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PERINDOPRIL; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEPATIC ARTERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY HEMORRHAGE; KIDNEY INFARCTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; MALE; PALLOR; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RENAL ARTERY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOCYTOSIS;

ADULT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PREDNISOLONE;

EID: 12744253527     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-003-0424-y     Document Type: Article

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