Neslihan Yılmaz, Selçuk Yüksel, Tülay Becerir, İlknur Girişgen, Furkan Ufuk, Dolunay Gürses, Münevver Yılmaz, Nagihan Yalçın
Cardiac involvement is very rare in patients with Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP). In this case study, we present an 8-year-old girl presenting with HSP-induced myocarditis and thrombus in the right atrium and HSP nephritis. To date, 15 cases of HSP-related cardiac involvement have been reported in the PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases. These cases, together with our case, are included in this review. We excluded those patients with other rheumatologic diseases (acute rheumatic fever, acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis, Kawasaki disease) accompanied by HSP...
August 13, 2020: Clinical Rheumatology