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A 52-year-old male developed cutaneous necrotizing vasculitis, renal failure, massive proteinuria, and elevated serum IgE levels following oral naproxen therapy. Renal biopsy specimen revealed cellular crescents in more than 40% of the glomeruli and a rare arteriole displayed thickening and eosinophilia of intima. Electron microscopic examination showed fusion of epithelial foot processes. Discontinuation of naproxen therapy was associated with disappearance of cutaneous lesions and improvement of renal function.
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PMID:Hypersensitivity angiitis associated with naproxen. 276 14

This study supports the concept that primary necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis is a kidney-limited form of polyarteritis nodosa. Thirty-four patients with necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis were divided into three groups based on the presence or absence of systemic vasculitis as determined by clinical or histologic criteria. Laboratory studies demonstrated elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rates, anemia, mild eosinophilia, hematuria, and proteinuria in patients in each group; there were no significant differences in these data between the groups, however. Complement levels and antinuclear antibody screens were normal. Mean serum creatinine levels were markedly elevated but fell by a factor of two following therapy. There was a higher morbidity in the patients with kidney-limited disease. This was attributable to a higher percentage of these patients' having no symptoms and presenting for medical care only after they were in chronic renal failure. Most patients not experiencing chronic renal failure were treated with cyclophosphamide and prednisone, which seemed effective in this retrospective study.
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PMID:Clinical and pathologic features of polyarteritis nodosa and its renal-limited variant: primary crescentic and necrotizing glomerulonephritis. 288 Jul 91

The authors have presented a review of literature and their own data on acute tubulointerstitial nephritis combined with uveitis in a patient aged 47. In foreign literature this combination is defined as a separate syndrome (TIN-uveitis or TINU). The development of nonspecific symptoms (fatigue, weakness, nausea, loss of body mass, pains in the joints, skin rash) was characterized by change in some laboratory indices (raised ESP, anemia, eosinophilia, hyperproteinemia, hypergammaglobulinemia) and nephropathy. The signs of nephropathy were polyuria, a decrease in relative urine density, proteinuria of tubular genesis, renal glucosuria and aminoaciduria. A decrease in glomerular filtration and an increase in the level of blood serum creatinine were noted in most of the cases. In spite of the development of renal failure TINU prognosis is favorable: renal function gets back to normal by itself or after corticosteroid therapy. Uveitis shows a tendency to recurrence. The immune genesis of the TINU syndrome is assumed.
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PMID:[Acute tubulo-interstitial nephritis combined with uveitis (clinical case and review of the literature)]. 353 15

Rheumatoid vasculitis is an uncommon but potentially catastrophic complication of RA. There are few current extensive experiences and no consensus regarding the clinical, laboratory, histologic features, and management or prognosis of rheumatoid vasculitis. We therefore reviewed selected observations in 13 patients followed over the past decade and compared them with patients reported and with results of a survey of North American Rheumatologists. Our patients were seven men and six women (age, 33 to 70 years) who had had active RA for 4 to 36 years. They exhibited sensory neuropathy, mononeuritis multiplex, Felty syndrome, cutaneous lesions, leg ulcers, gangrene, anemia, leukocytosis, eosinophilia, high titers of RF, hypocomplementemia, and CICs or cryoglobulinemia approximately as frequently as other reported patients with rheumatoid vasculitis, but they displayed constitutional symptoms, subcutaneous nodules, ischemic changes, and proteinuria rather less consistently than in other series. These observations were not necessarily as expected by survey respondents. We, as in other series and suggested by survey respondents, tended to select penicillamine or cytotoxic drugs (or plasmapheresis) for patients with mononeuritis, gangrene, or leg ulcers, and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, antimalarials, gold, or penicillamine for sensory neuropathy or digital lesions. Four patients died, two deteriorated, and seven were stable or improved, a finding that was also similar to the experiences of others. Rheumatoid vasculitis is an uncommon, potentially catastrophic syndrome with varying clinico-pathologic features that have different prognostic implications and should be managed individually.
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PMID:Rheumatoid vasculitis: experience with 13 patients and review of the literature. 390 8

Antibiotics are the principal cause of drug-associated nephropathy. They are responsible for acute interstitial nephropathy (AIN) or acute tubulo-interstitial nephropathy (ATIN) due to two different pathophysiologic mechanisms: a drug-induced immunologic process and direct action due to drug accumulation. 1) Ain of immunologic origin. These are rare and are induced either by beta-lactamines or by rifampicin. Among the beta-lactamines, methicillin is the most often responsible, while penicillin and ampicillin are less often, and only rarely are carbenicillin, oxacillin, nafcillin, cephalothin and cephalexin. Macroscopic hematuria occurring 10 to 15 days after initiation of treatment usually reveals the renal involvement. It is associated with or preceded by fever, skin eruption and blood eosinophilia. Renal insufficiency (RI) is not severe and rarely requires hemodialysis (HD). The course is usually favorable. Rifampicin-induced AIN is observed in two circumstances, either during intermittent treatment or when previous treatment is resumed. Macroscopic hematuria is rare and RI often severe. Anti-rifampicin anti-bodies are usually found. 2) ATIN due to direct toxicity. Several classes of antibiotics may be responsible: cephalosporins, polymyxins or cyclins, but it is usually observed with aminoglycosides (AG). The incidence of renal involvement due to the latter group is estimated to be 4 to 10%. Nephrotoxicity is initially reflected by polyuria, tubular proteinuria and increased enzymuria, followed by cylindruria and reduced glomerular filtration. HD is rarely required. The proximal tubule is predominantly affected; pathological findings are disappearance of the brush border and tubular necrosis. Electronic microscopy shows lysosomal alterations with numerous myelinic bodies. Tubular regeneration occurs within 15 to 30 days.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Antibiotic nephrotoxicity. 610 Jan 74

Six male and 6 female Beagles, 6 to 7 months old, were allotted to 2 groups: group I--inoculated subcutaneously with 30 Dipetalonema reconditum infective larvae/dog, and group II--noninoculated controls. Group comparisons were made in regard to hematologic values, Knott test results, body weights, blood urea nitrogen, total serum protein, serum albumin and alanine aminotransferase and creatine kinase activities. Routine urinalysis data were compared at 1 week before and at 28 weeks after the inoculations. Mean total leukocyte counts were significantly (P less than 0.05) greater in group I dogs than in group II dogs at postinoculation weeks (PIW) 4, 5, and 7 to 12, and mean eosinophil counts were significantly greater in group I dogs at PIW 3 to 11, 13 to 15, 20, and 23 to 24. Microfilariae were detected as early as the 10th week and sporadically thereafter. Only 1 D reconditum adult worm was recovered from all of the inoculated dogs. Five other dogs (group III) with chronic, patient experimentally induced dipetalonemiasis, were evaluated with the same tests at PIW 70 to 89. Eosinophilia (greater than 750 cells/microliter) was present in 4 of 5 dogs; lymphocytosis (greater than 4,800 cells/microliter) was evident in 1 dog. Proteinuria (greater than or equal to 30 mg/dl) was detected in 3 of 4 dogs with chronic dipetalonemiasis.
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PMID:Clinical responses of dogs to experimentally induced Dipetalonema reconditum infection. 668 83

Forty-one Egyptian students with infections due to Schistosoma haematobium, who were selected by results of a urine screening examination, were evaluated for morbidity and response to chemotherapy. Symptoms associated with infection were hematuria, dysuria, and swimmer's itch. A positive correlation existed between the intensity of infection and frequency of exposure to water. Laboratory abnormalities included eosinophilia (41), anemia (9), hematuria (38), pyuria (33), and proteinuria (8). Three of 26 subjects had abnormalities intravenous pyelograms: hydroureter, bladder polyp , and bladder calcification. The bladder polyp was noted also by sonography. Cure rates were 66.7% in 18 subjects treated with two 10-mg/kg doses of trichlorfon and were 89.5% in 19 subjects given three doses. Those not cured had an average reduction in ova excretion of 96%. Follow-up at 12 months of 33 subjects showed that nine had S. haematobium ova in urine, although 75% admitted to exposure to canal or irrigation water in the interim.
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PMID:Clinical characteristics and response to therapy in Egyptian children infected with Schistosoma haematobium. 673 85

Seven cases of diffuse interstitial lung disease (DILD) are reported with an unequivocal temporal relationship between the development of the lung disease and treatment with gold (6 cases) and penicillamine (1 case). They were characterised clinically by the sudden onset of dyspnoea and crepitations and radiologically by diffuse bilateral pulmonary shadowing. Most showed evidence of hypersensitivity such as eosinophilia, a raised serum IgE level in response to gold, proteinuria, thrombocytopenia, or an immediate postinjection reaction. DILD is a serious complication of treatment with gold and penicillamine that is commoner than generally realised.
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PMID:Relationship of gold and penicillamine therapy to diffuse interstitial lung disease. 678 83

A 20-year-old man experienced the onset of progressive scleroderma-like skin changes with eosinophilia and hypergammaglobulinaemia after strenuous military activity. A biopsy showed faciitis. Concomitant splenomegaly, polysynovitis, restrictive lung function, myositis, decrease hepatic clotting factors and proteinuria were documented. He responded well to corticosteroids, relapse upon their discontinuation and had a complete remission of both skin and systemic features while on penicillamine and azathioprine. He is new in good health and has received no medication for the past two years.
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PMID:Multisystem presentation of eosinophilic fasciitis. 713 42

It is reported on the course of histologically ascertained Wegeners' granulomatosis in 4 patients. After initial affection of the upper respiratory tract in form of necrotizing and granulomatous inflammations in all cases a generalisation of the disease with above all early and severe participation of the kidneys developed. Maximum acceleration of sedimentation, C-reactive protein, anaemia, leucocytosis, eosinophilia, thrombocytosis, enlargement of the number of alpha 2-globulins, increase of creatinine, proteinuria, erythrocyturia and leucocyturia are the most frequent pathological laboratory findings, whereas LE-cells, ANF, rheumatoid factor and decrease of the complement never could be proved. By reason of a pathogenic immunoreaction a combined glucocorticoid therapy and immunosuppressive therapy with prednisolone and cyclophosphamide may favourably influence the course of the disease which is otherwise prognostically infaust.
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PMID:[Wegener's granulomatosis with pronounced kidney involvement]. 725 36


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