Polyarteritis nodosa: ischaemic intestinal pain successfully treated with nitroglycerin

Dahlander, B.; Odeberg, Håkan; Hansen, Bjarne U.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2796.1996.446784000.x

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“…Some will ultimately declare themselves as either ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn disease (CD). Others such as the primary systemic vasculitides occasionally mimic IBD (1‐18), and extraintestinal vasculitis can complicate IBD (19‐45). Thus, the differentiation between primary systemic vasculitis and IBD can be clinically challenging, but it is important to distinguish these disorders because their treatment and outcomes are different.…”

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Systemic Vasculitis

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Malik²,

Shah³

et al. 2006

J. pediatr. gastroenterol. nutr.

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Extraintestinal manifestations and inflammatory responses that may be disproportionate to the degree of intestinal inflammation provide clues to the presence of an underlying primary systemic vasculitis, and these data suggest that selective visceral angiography plays a key role in the diagnosis of vasculitis in this context. It is important to identify and treat any vasculitic component because failure to do so may result in consequential morbidity or mortality.

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