You are here

Article Text

Article menu

Download PDFPDF

XML
Rare disease
CASE REPORT
Hydralazine-associated antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody vasculitis with pulmonary–renal syndrome
  1. Narothama Reddy Aeddula1,2,
  2. Samata Pathireddy3,4,
  3. Asif Ansari5,
  4. Peter J Juran1,2
  1. 1Nephrology, Deaconess Health System, Evansville, Indiana, USA
  2. 2Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Evansville, Indiana, USA
  3. 3Internal Medicine, Deaconess Health System, Evansville, Indiana, USA
  4. 4Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Evansville, Indiana, USA
  5. 5Nephrology, Permian Basin Kidney Center, Midland, Texas, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Samata Pathireddy, drspathireddy{at}gmail.com

Summary

Hydralazine, a vasodilator, is commonly used as an adjunctive treatment for moderate to severe hypertension, heart failure and hypertensive emergencies in pregnancy. Hydralazine-induced lupus was first described in 1953. Clinical presentation ranges from arthralgia, myalgia, petechiae, or rash to single or multiorgan involvement. An occurrence of systemic vasculitis is a rare complication. When presented as the pulmonary–renal syndrome, it could have a rapidly progressive course which can be fatal. Here, we describe a case of hydralazine-associated rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and pulmonary haemorrhage. We use this case to review the current literature and discuss and highlight the importance of a high degree of clinical acumen, early diagnosis and prompt treatment for better clinical outcomes.

  • drug interactions
  • renal system
  • acute renal failure
  • vasculitis

This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-227161

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Contributors NRA, SP, AA and PJJ involved in the planning, conception, acquisition of data and helped with the final drafting of the case report. SP and NRA are the first authors and have equally contributed to the majority of the article.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Not required.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.