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Gastrointestinal involvement occurs frequently in essential mixed cryoglobulinemia, and most often involves the liver and spleen. Intestinal involvement is much less common and is generally felt to be a late and often catastrophic manifestation of the disease due to severe vasculitis. Occasionally,
In a 53-year-old female patient with recurrent, sometimes bloody diarrhea, the long standing diagnosis of an ANA-negative lupus erythematosus with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, leucocytoclastic vasculitis and chronic hepatitis was ruled out and the diagnosis of a hepatitis C associated
We report on a 67-year-old female patient who was admitted to our intensive care unit with acute renal failure and severe hypoxemia. Transiently, the patient had to be treated with kidney replacement therapies and artificial ventilation. The actual illness started with general weakness, recurrent
Hepatitis A is a common viral infection with a benign course but in rare cases can progress to acute liver failure. It usually presents with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, jaundice, anorexia, or asymptomatically, but it can also present atypically with relapsing hepatitis and prolonged
An 82-year-old female developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) after a prodromal illness of bloody diarrhea. No specific enteric pathogen was isolated. A renal biopsy performed 5 days after the onset of azotemia revealed typical thrombotic microangiopathy. By electron microscopy, massive
BACKGROUND
The detection and estimation of hepatitis E have greatly changed in recent years. An increasing number of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections, which were acquired in Europe and knowledge on chronic hepatitis E in immunosuppressed patients, give this infectious disease a new significance in
A case of glomerulonephritis in a 35-year-old man with Crohn's disease is described here. The patient presented with severe diarrhea, nephrotic range proteinuria, hematuria, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, hypocomplementemia, acute renal failure requiring hemodialysis,