Systemic panca-associated vasculitis with central nervous involvement causing recurrent myelitis: Case report

BMC Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hamilton, Alexander J ^a   Whitehead, Duncan J ^a   Bull, Matthew D ^a   D'Souza, Richard J ^a  

^a ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; MYELOPEROXIDASE; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; RITUXIMAB;

AGED; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; ASTROCYTOMA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DUODENITIS; EPENDYMOMA; EVENING DOSAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEG PAIN; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTE; MYELITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDITIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; BRAIN VASCULITIS; MALE;

AGED; ANTI-NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY-ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYELITIS; PLASMA EXCHANGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 78649456555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-10-118     Document Type: Article

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