A Case Series of Adult Patients Diagnosed with IgA Vasculitis Requiring Systemic Immunosuppression

08 December 2021 : Case report Australia

Unusual setting of medical care, Rare disease, Adverse events of drug therapy

Fenfen Cai^1ABCDEF*, Lisa Phipps^2AE, Peter Wu^3AE, Ming-Wei Lin^145ABCDEFG

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.933407

Am J Case Rep 2021; 22:e933407

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Table 1. IgAV cases.

Patient	Age/race/sex	Organ involvement	Biopsy results	Therapy	Outcomes
1	31/A/F	Skin-abdomen-joints-	Skin - leukocytoclastic vasculitis.Kidney – crescentic glomerulonephritis with mesangiocapillary IgA	GC, CYC, MMF	Improving proteinuria. Improving skin vasculitis
2	43/I/M	Skin-	Skin – IgA vasculitis	GC, AZT	Remission
3	64/T/F	Skin-abdomen-	Lung – capillaritis suggestive of vasculitis	GC, AZT – refractory, MMF – sepsis, RTX+SIR – remission	Disease remission. Hypogamma-globulinemia.Adrenal insufficiency. Infection, death
A – Aboriginal; I – Indian; T – Turkish; M – male; F – female; GC – glucocorticoids; MMF – mycophenolate; CYC – cyclophosphamide; RTX – rituximab; SIR – sirolimus. Main organ involvement is highlighted in .

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