Key Clinical Message: We report an observation of a young patient presenting with severe type 1 cryoglobulinemic vasculitis revealing a monoclonal gammopathy of clinical significant. Treatment with Melphalan-Thalidomide Prednisone improved the symptoms. Early diagnosis would prevent serious tissue damage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBehçet's disease should be suspected in young adults who present with heart failure and/or vascular lesions. Cardiac involvement and mesenteric artery aneurysm are rare but should be recognized because of their severity.
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We report a 24-year-old female patient not infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and without other risk factors of immunosuppression, presenting with neuromeningeal cryptococcosis. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis revealed the presence of . The evolution was unfavorable and the patient died even after appropriate antifungal treatment.
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