Microscopic polyarteritis in a patient with hypertension

Nekrasova, T.P.; Berestova, A.V.; Semenkova, E.N.

Arkhiv Patologii 63(2): 43-47

2001


ISSN/ISBN: 0004-1955
PMID: 11392092
Document Number: 528612
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.

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