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Successful treatment of gangrene in systemic necrotizing vasculitis with iloprost
F Zulian1, C Costantini, M C Montesco
1Department of Paediatrics, University of Padua, Italy.
British Journal of Rheumatology
|May 6, 1998
Abstract:
Systemic necrotizing vasculitis is uncommon in children and may be rarely associated with gangrene. We describe a 3-yr-old girl with parvovirus B19-induced necrotizing vasculitis whose digital gangrene was successfully treated with iloprost, a prostacyclin analogue.