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Leprosy has been shown to affect almost all systems of human body and abnormalities in functions of autonomic nerves innervating various parts have been observed in several studies. In the skin and its appendages, the common changes are anhidrosis and varying degree of impaired sweat response. Signs of denervation of iris and reduced intraocular pressure are permanent features of autonomic involvement in the eye. In the cardiac autonomic functions, rhythm disturbances have been documented by several investigators. Respiratory function test studies have shown impaired breath holding time and decreased response to cough as well as other changes indicating blockade of vagus nerves and sympathetic plexus. Abnormal testicular pain sensation and diminished nocturnal penile tumiscence provide evidence of afflication of autonomic nerves of male genital system. Other important autonomic nervous system involvements include the nerves innervating the capillaries of legs. These changes have been observed to be more in extensive and long standing disease which indicate the need to study all these aspects in prospective studies specially in the light of early institution of multidrug treatment.
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PMID:Autonomic nerve affection in leprosy. 872 14

A 22-year-old man with a history of cocaine abuse from 2003 to 2005 developed recurrent bleeding of the nasal septum and a progressive cough and dyspnoea. He was admitted to the intensive care unit because of fulminant pneumonia, impaired renal function and progressive general deterioration. While hospitalized, he developed cutaneous vasculitis, thrombosis of the right subclavian and right jugular veins, testicular pain and, eventually, expanding red papules and plaques on the limbs. The symptoms were a diagnostic challenge, until skin biopsy showed immunoglobulin deposits in small vessels and kidney biopsy focal and segmental pauci-immune, crescentic glomerulonephritis. This led, together with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (cANCA and PR3-ANCA), to the diagnosis of Wegener granulomatosis. The number of affected organ systems in our patient exceeds that commonly found in the literature. Several clinical observations of cocaine abuse followed by Wegener granulomatosis suggest an active induction of a PR3-ANCA-positive vasculitis by cocaine.
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PMID:PR3-ANCA-positive necrotizing multi-organ vasculitis following cocaine abuse. 1900 45

A 56-year-old man with bilateral hearing impairment who had taken betamethasone combined with dexchlorpheniramine maleate for 7 years to treat chronic sinusitis developed a dry cough after discontinuing this medication and was diagnosed with asthma, and after which he sensed impaired bilateral hearing. Based on the presence of numerous eosinophilic leukocytes in otorrehea, we made a diagnosis of eosinophilic otitis media, and he was prescribed predonisolone to control the asthma, but discontinued it on his own. He then developed fever, maniphalanx stiffness, testicular pain, and facial hyperesthesia, eruptions, and the lower-limb numbness. The detection of a positive serum reaction for MPO-ANCA and evaluated of eosinophilic leukocyte levels yielded a definitive diagnosis of CSS, for which the man was treated with predonisolone and cyclophosphamide. His symptoms were relieved, even though the onset of neutropenia, necessitated the discontinuation of cyclophosphamade administration.
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PMID:[A case of Churg-Strauss syndrome following corticosteroid withdrawal]. 1961 May 91