The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 119, Issue 9 , Pages 748-750 , September 2006

An Odd Case of Hypertension

  • John E. Aruny, MD
    • ,
  • Mark A. Perazella, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationRequests for reprints should be addressed to Mark A. Perazella, MD, FACP, Yale University School of Medicine, 107 FMP, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8029.

References 

  1. Blaustein DA, Kumbar L, Srivastava M, Avram MM. Polyarteritis nodosa presenting as isolated malignant hypertension. Am J Hypertens. 2004;17:380–381
  2. Jennette JC, Falk RJ. The pathology of vasculitis involving the kidney. Am J Kidney Dis. 1994;24:130–141
  3. Balow JE. Renal vasculitis. Kidney Int. 1985;27:954–964
  4. Guillevin L, Lhote F, Cohen P, et al. Polyarteritis nodosa related to hepatitis B virus (A prospective study with long-term observation of 41 patients). Medicine (Baltimore). 1995;74:238–253
  5. Schmidt WA. Use of imaging studies in the diagnosis of vasculitis. Curr Rheumatol Rep. 2004;6:203–211
  6. Lightfoot RW, Michel BA, Bloch DA, et al. The American College of Rheumatology 1990 criteria for the classification of polyarteritis nodosa. Arthritis Rheum. 1990;33:1088–1093
  7. Kallenberg CG, Brouwer E, Weening JJ, Tervaert JW. Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies: Current diagnostic and pathophysiological potential. Kidney Int. 1994;46:1–15
  8. Guillevin L, Cohen P, Mahr A, et al. Treatment of polyarteritis nodosa and microscopic polyangiitis with poor prognosis factors: a prospective trial comparing glucocorticoids and six or twelve cyclophosphamide pulses in sixty-five patients. Arthritis Rheum. 2003;49:93–100
  9. Guillevin L. Treatment of classic polyarteritis nodosa in 1999. [editorial] Nephrol Dial Transplant. 1999;14:2077–2079
  10. Gayraud M, Guillevin L, le Toumelin P, Cohen P, et al. French Vasculitis Study Group Long-term followup of polyarteritis nodosa, microscopic polyangiitis, and Churg-Strauss syndrome: analysis of four prospective trials including 278 patients. Arthritis Rheum. 2001;44:666–675

 Michael Bettmann, MD, Section Editor

PII: S0002-9343(06)00846-1

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2006.07.016

The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 119, Issue 9 , Pages 748-750 , September 2006

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution