Pulmonary vasculitis presenting as atypical asthma

Nonmyeloablative allogeneic bone marrow transplantation of a child with systemic autoimmune disease and lung vasculitis

“…She first presented to All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg in 1997 as a 9-year-old child with a 2-year history of asthma like symptoms, sinus congestion, fatigue, Raynaud's phenomena, and arthralgia [5]. Her diagnosis was established as ''overlap syndrome'' without a serological disease marker.…”

Nonmyeloablative allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for treatment of childhood overlap syndrome and small vessel vasculitis

“…13 She was in good health until 7 years of age (1995) when she developed growth failure, fatigue, weakness, sinus congestion, and Raynaud's phenomenon. She was given nebulizers and short courses of adrenal steroids for atypical asthma and later started on nifedipine for mild hypertension and Raynaud's.…”