Systemic antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody vasculitis associated with lymphoid neoplasia.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Two cases of systemic antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) vasculitis in the setting of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy type T cell lymphoma are reported. The two patients had fever of unknown origin associated with cutaneous vasculitis and "pulmonary-renal syndrome" with alveolar haemorrhage. Despite anti-infectious treatments, steroids, and chemotherapy, the vasculitis had a fatal paraneoplastic course in several weeks. When infection is excluded in patients with malignancy, atypical features should be promptly investigated for systemic vasculitis, and an ANCA test performed.
Medical subject headings
- Antibodies, Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell
- Lymphoma, T-Cell
- Vasculitis