Short report
Systemic vasculitis and atypical infections: report of two cases
Kuntal Chakravartya, Peter Merryb
a Department of
Rheumatology, Havering Hospital NHS Trust, UK, b Department of Rheumatology, Norfolk and Norwich
Hospital, Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Correspondence to: Dr Kuntal Chakravarty, Haroldwood Hospital, Gubbins Lane, Romford, Essex RM7 0BE, UK
Accepted 9 March 1999
Two cases of systemic vasculitis are described; one presenting
with adult Henoch-Schonlein purpura secondary to a concomitant Chlamydia infection and the other with
leucocytoclastic vasculitis and mesangioproliferative
glomerulonephritis secondary to a recent parvovirus B19 infection.
Association of chlamydial infection has not previously been described
with Henoch-Schonlein purpura and this infection should, perhaps, be
added to the list of aetiologies of this disease. Parvovirus B19
causing significant urinary sediment abnormalities associated with
mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis and leucocytoclastic
vasculitis has also not been described previously.
Keywords: vasculitis; Henoch-Schonlein purpura; Chlamydia infection; leucocytoclastic vasculitis; mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis; parvovirus B19
© 1999 by The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
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