A case of Behçet’s disease developing after poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis

A case of Behçet’s disease developing after poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis

Abstract We report a case of a 73-year-old Japanese male patient who developed Behçet’s disease (BD) after poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis. Three months after the initial presentation, acneiform eruption and oral and genital ulcers appeared. Treatment with oral prednisolone (20 mg/day) re...

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Veröffentlicht in:Modern rheumatology 2013-11, Vol.23 (6), p.1221-1225
Hauptverfasser: Kitai, Yuichiro, Murakami, Kosaku, Yoshifuji, Hajime, Yukawa, Naoichiro, Kawabata, Daisuke, Ohmura, Koichiro, Fujii, Takao, Mimori, Tsuneyo
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Sprache:eng
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Asian people
Inflammatory diseases
Medical treatment
Streptococcus infections
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract We report a case of a 73-year-old Japanese male patient who developed Behçet’s disease (BD) after poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis. Three months after the initial presentation, acneiform eruption and oral and genital ulcers appeared. Treatment with oral prednisolone (20 mg/day) resulted in the remarkable disappearance of these symptoms. These findings support the hypothesis that Streptococcus pyogenes may be an etiologic factor of BD.
ISSN:1439-7595
1439-7609
DOI:10.3109/s10165-012-0736-4