Systemic hypersensitivity vasculitis associated with bronchiectasis

Chest. 1992 Aug;102(2):647-9. doi: 10.1378/chest.102.2.647.

Abstract

Systemic hypersensitivity vasculitis developed in a 53-year-old man during acute exacerbation of bronchiectasis infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. High grade fever, mononeuropathy multiplex, cutaneous vasculitis, and biopsy specimen-proved mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis with crescent formation and leukocytoclastic vasculitis associated with circulating immune complex occurred. Corticosteroid and cyclophosphamide therapy was effective for vasculitis and bronchiectasis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Biopsy
  • Bronchiectasis / complications*
  • Bronchiectasis / pathology
  • Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative / etiology
  • Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative / pathology
  • Haemophilus Infections / etiology
  • Haemophilus Infections / pathology
  • Haemophilus influenzae
  • Humans
  • Immune Complex Diseases / etiology
  • Immune Complex Diseases / pathology
  • Kidney / pathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pseudomonas Infections / etiology
  • Pseudomonas Infections / pathology
  • Skin / pathology
  • Vasculitis, Leukocytoclastic, Cutaneous / etiology*
  • Vasculitis, Leukocytoclastic, Cutaneous / pathology