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Padmavathi Mali1, Sudheer R Muduganti2, Jerry Goldberg3
1Department of Internal Medicine, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin USA mail.padmavthi@marshfieldclinic.org.
Abstract:
Vasculitis is an accumulation of inflammatory leucocytes in the blood vessels with reactive damage to mural structures. Isolated vasculitis of the gastrointestinal tract without systemic involvement is rare. We report a unique case of a female patient who presented with abdominal pain, and was found, on serology, to have elevated inflammatory markers without autoantibodies. A computed tomography scan of the abdomen and pelvis was suggestive of vasculitis of the hepatic artery. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case, to date, of vasculitis of hepatic artery.
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