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[Microscopic polyarteritis in a patient with hypertension]
T P Nekrasova1, A V Berestova, E N Semenkova
1I. M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, 119881, Moscow.
Arkhiv Patologii
|June 8, 2001
Abstract:
A case of microscopic polyarteritis in a male aged 45 years having hypertension for 22 years is reported. There were clinical manifestations (hemorrhages, subfebrile temperature, arthralgias and others) and damages in many organs: productive-necrotic alveolitis, capillaritis of various organs, morphological features of hypertension, atherosclerosis, subendocardial myocardial infarction. The leading clinical feature was rapid progression of renal and pulmonary-heart failure.