Vasculitis primer

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There is a primer on Vasculitis at:

http://www.postgradmed.com/issues/1998/02_98/bush.htm

If the URL doesn't work just enter the home page URL (ending with .com) and

find the link to rehumatologic diseases.

It is 11 pages. Suggest you just print and read later.

There is some info on Temporal Arteritis at:

Http://www/sin-italia.org/jnonline/vol10n1/hergesel/hergesel.htm

There is a research report on diagnosing Wegner's (if anyone is waiting for

that diagnosis) that says VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) is higher

in Wegner's patients -- but I don't have the URL on my printout. It has

Denison Memorial Library, Health Reference Center-Academic on header and

refers to WORLD DISEASE WEEKLY PLUS, issue dated Feb 22, 1999. You can

probably reach the URL by searching on the journal title. The whole issue

is on line and at the end of the article I mention there are links to other

references on related subjects as well as a link to view other articles in

that issue.

At the end of the article there is also a section: Retrieval Options. It

allows you to reformat for printing or view the artical in Acrobat REader.

You can also opt for delivery of the full text via Email -- putting it in a

format you can easily save to disk.

Corticosteroids in rheumatic disease: Understanding their effects is key to

their use: Postgraduate Medicine, Vol 103/No 2/ Feb. 1998: (prints out in

10 pages)

VERY INFORMATIVE!!

http://www.postgradmed.com/issues/1998/02_98/vollen.htm

For those who have a hospital library w/New England Journal of medicine:

Case Records of the massachusetts General Hospital, in the NEJM issue July 8,

1999:

Shows details of diagnostic proceedures for Lupus and Wegner's when there is

confusion between the two.

There is another case record in issue for Sept 10 1998 that discusses

diagnosing various kinds of vasculitis.

First paragraphs mention how blood tests can be negative one day and positive

3 weeks later.

New England J. or Med. also has an article on using

Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (co-Trimoxazole) to prevent relapses in

Wegner's (July 4, 1996). A quick scan seems to indicate it is an antibiotic

of sorts and might be used in other vasculitis eventually. (People allergic

to sulfa may not be able to take it if " sulfa " in the generic name means

anything.)

H.