Infarction of the small intestine sequent to polyarteritis nodosa of the mesenteric vessels

Ileal Perforation and Acute Peripheral Neuropathy in Rheumatoid Arthritis

“…This complication has also been reported in scleroderma (Kibler and Rose, 1960). Histologically, the arterial lesions in the case described resembled those of polyarteritis nodosa, in which intestinal perforation occurs not uncommonly (Friedman, Schwartz, Truben and Steinbrocker, 1953;Rabinovitch and Rabinovitch, 1954;McKeown and Ganguli, 1956). However, this patient had classical rheumatoid arthritis and it is known that the necrotising arteritis of rheumatoid arthritis may closely simulate the vascular lesions of polyarteritis nodosa, although the necrosis is usually less severe and aneurysm formation is said never to occur (Cruikshank, 1954).…”

Digestive and Articular Manifestations of Collagen Diseases: A STUDY OF 55 PATIENTS

“…of 607 cases. Abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting were the commonest symptoms, and small bowel lesions resulted in diarrhoea (Lawrie, 1955), intestinal obstruction (Lowenstein and Heeb, 1955), small bowel infarction (Rabinovitch and Rabinovitch, 1954), intraperitoneal haemorrhage and gastrointestinal perforation (Lovell and Rose, 1955). If the liver is involved the clinical picture is that of hepatitis and the pathological lesions of cirrhosis of Laennec's type may be seen.…”