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Successful treatment of new onset Wegener’s granulomatosis with IVIG (intravenous immunoglobulin) during pregnancy: a case report

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We describe a patient with limited Wegener’s granulomatosis (WG) presenting during pregnancy with aggressive cutaneous involvement. She was treated with a combination of high-dose corticosteroids and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) during her third trimester. The patient had otherwise uneventful pregnancy and a satisfactory outcome for both herself and her newborn. In the English literature, prior to this report, there have been de novo cases of WG in pregnant women that were diagnosed and treated during pregnancy and three cases of WG treated successfully with IVIG during pregnancy.

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  1. Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 504 Maloney, 3600 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Seo Young Kim, Julie M. Linton & Sharon L. Kolasinski

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Kim, S.Y., Linton, J.M. & Kolasinski, S.L. Successful treatment of new onset Wegener’s granulomatosis with IVIG (intravenous immunoglobulin) during pregnancy: a case report. Mod Rheumatol 18, 177–180 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10165-008-0020-9

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