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20075589

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-1-15
pubmed:abstractText
A 64-year-old woman with hypertension and hyperlipidemia was admitted to our hospital for the investigation and management of general fatigue, anorexia, a 5-kg weight loss, and a 4-week history of high-grade fever. She had no symptoms of headache, myalgia, or arthralgia, and the physical examination was unremarkable. The laboratory tests revealed renal dysfunction with urine abnormalities that had not been observed 1 year earlier. A renal biopsy showed granulomatous small arteritis without necrotic lesions or glomerular pathology. An immunohistochemical study of the infiltrating leukocytes showed a predominance of CD4+ T cells followed by CD8+ T cells, and only a few macrophages. The condition drastically improved after treatment with 30 mg/day of oral prednisolone. The granulomatous renal arteritis was considered a variant of giant cell arteritis, because it showed the peculiar finding of a few macrophages in the granulomatous lesions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1349-7235
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
49
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
191-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Isolated granulomatous renal arteritis: a variant form of giant cell arteritis with few macrophages.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Nephrology, Iwate Prefectural Central Hospital, Morioka.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports