RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Urticaria, nephritis, and pseudotumor cerebri
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 197
OP 201
VO 57
IS 2
A1 Lieberman, Jefrey
A1 Gepflardt, Gordon
A1 Calabrese, Leonard H.
YR 1990
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/57/2/197.abstract
AB The spectrum of chronic urticarial disease ranges from chronic urticarial skin lesions alone to well-characterized systemic lupus erythematosus with urticarial vasculitis as the major skin manifestation. Within this spectrum is the syndrome of urticarial vasculitis associated with systemic disease manifestations. There have been six previously recorded cases of urticarial vasculitis associated with pseudotumor cerebri. At least two of these have included membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis. The authors report a case of chronic urticarial disease associated with pseudotumor cerebri and membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, but without demonstrable vasculitis. It is possible that this represents a distinct entity within the spectrum of chronic urticarial disease and can be easily screened for in clinical practice.