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Henoch-Schönlein purpura in a chronic hemodialysis patient
C Esposito1, G Fasoli, F Cornacchia
1Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo and University of Pavia, Italy.
Journal of Nephrology
|August 10, 1999
Abstract:
We describe a patient on maintenance hemodialysis who developed purpura, abdominal pain with bloody stool, and gross hematuria. A skin biopsy revealed leukocytoclastic vasculitis with IgA deposits. This is the first report of Henoch-Schönlein purpura in a hemodialysis patient.