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ArticleJournal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives2023

Rheumatoid Vasculitis Presenting with Incidental Renal Infarcts: Case Report and Literature Review.

Fatima Halilu, Howard Hauptman

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Article in Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Fatima HaliluDepartment of Internal Medicine, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Towson, MD, USA.
Howard HauptmanRheumatology Associates of Baltimore, Towson, MD, USA.
Greater Baltimore Medical Center · USRheumatology Consultants · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rheumatoid vasculitis is a rare and late complication of rheumatoid arthritis, affecting small to medium sized vessels. Inflammation in the vessel wall produces an occlusive vasculopathy with downstream infarction. We present the case of a 70-year-old female with long standing stable RA status post recent COVID-19 vaccination admitted with community acquired Legionnaires disease found to have an incidental renal infarct on chest imaging without a clear etiology. She improved from a respiratory standpoint but then had a fever spike with repeat imaging showing a second renal infarct and CT angiography showing extensive beading with aneurysmal dilation in the bilateral hepatic and renal arteries consistent with vasculitis. Given extensive RA history, there was a high index of suspicion for rheumatoid vasculitis and she was treated with pulse steroids followed by Rituximab with tapering of steroids and clinical recovery. Her presentation is unique given the salient features, extensive multi-vessel disease without localizing symptoms and potential role of Legionella infection or COVID-19 vaccine in immune activation.

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Rheumatoid arthritisRheumatoid vasculitisVasculitis

Identifiers

PMID37168062
PMCPMC10166213
OpenAlexW4323925435

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