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eISSN: 2719-3209
ISSN: 0023-2157
Klinika Oczna / Acta Ophthalmologica Polonica
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3/2019
vol. 121
 
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abstract:
Case report

Ocular manifestation of granulomatosis with polyangiitis – a case report

Marta Mesterhazy
1, 2
,
Joanna Wierzbowska
2
,
Radosław Różycki
2
,
Marek Rękas
2
,
Witold Tłustochowicz
3

1.
Oddział Okulistyki Szpitala Wojewódzkiego im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Koszalinie
2.
Klinika Okulistyki Wojskowego Instytutu Medycznego w Warszawie
3.
Klinika Chorób Wewnętrznych i Reumatologii Wojskowego Instytutu Medycznego w Warszawie
Online publish date: 2019/11/18
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Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA, formerly Wegener’s Granulomatosis) is a rare autoimmune multisystem disease of unknown etiology, which is characterized by granulomatous inflammation, tissue necrosis and vasculitidies of small and medium vessels. It has a predilection for the upper respiratory tract, lungs and kidneys, but can affect any organ. Ocular manifestation occurs in around 50% of patients. Appereance of exophthalmos, nasolacrimal duct obstruction, granulomas of eyelid, scleritis or marginal keratitis should lead to consider GPA. In an article a rare case of a 30-year-old man who developed ocular symptomps seven years after diagnosis of GPA, is presented.
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granulomatosis with polyangiitis, ocular manifestation of a multisystem disease, exophthalmos, nasolacrimal duct obstruction

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