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[Mixed cryoglobulinemia and vasculitic neuromyopathy].
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 1993 January 30
Over a period of 25 years, a 67-year-old man again and again developed purpura over the lower legs. When hospitalized because of splenomegaly with thrombocytopenia the diagnosis of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura was made. Four years later, after an infection of the upper respiratory tract, purpura again developed, together with a symmetrical sensory-motor polyneuropathy with flaccid paraparesis. Biopsy of the N. suralis revealed a florid leukocytoclastic vasculitis. Morphologically there was severe nerve damage with Wallerian degeneration and subtotal nerve fibre loss. Immunological tests demonstrated essential mixed cryoglobulinaemia of IgG/IgM type. Cryoprecipitates must be considered as the cause of the vasculitis, which in turn produced the nerve lesions and purpura. This case underlines the importance of biopsy diagnosis of peripheral nerve and skeletal muscle, because it may demonstrate a treatable cause of a severe acute neuromyopathy.
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