Klinika Oczna

Abstract

3/2019 vol. 121
Case report

Ocular manifestation of granulomatosis with polyangiitis – a case report

  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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