ABSTRACT
Weber-Christian disease (WCD) is an inflammatory disease of subcutaneous fat tissue which is characterized by relapsing, febrile tender nodules and histologically lobular panniculitis. Any area of the body containing fat can be affected by WCD. Several cases of WCD have been reported as involvement of the heart, lung, liver and kidney. Acute illness (ex. acute myocardiac infarction, infection, etc) can be complicated with stress-related hyperglycemia and increase insulin restistance. Finally this case show that Weber-Christian disease accompanied by marked hyperglycemia and insulin resistance, which resolved soon after corticosteroid.
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Humans , Heart , Hyperglycemia , Infarction , Insulin , Insulin Resistance , Kidney , Liver , Lung , Panniculitis , Panniculitis, Nodular Nonsuppurative , Subcutaneous FatABSTRACT
Weber-Christian disease (WCD) was first described by Pfeifer in 1892, and more clearly defined by Weber and Christian in the 1920s. It is a process of unknown etiology characterized by recurrent fever and inflammation of the adipose tissue. Pathological studies disclose areas of fat necrosis with an inflammatory infiltrate showing a lobular pattern and the usual presence of macrophages with foamy cytoplasm. The clinical signs include tender, palpable nodules, located mainly in the extremities, and fever, abdominal pain, arthritis and arthralgia and hepatosplenomegaly have also been reported. We present a case of Weber-Christian disease in which the presence of multiple subcutaneous nodules, enophthalmos, fatty liver, pericardial effusion was noticed. Biopsy of the skin showed mixed panniculitis in the subcutaneous fat layer. She responded well to glucocorticoid, colchicine and hydroxychloroquine.
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Abdominal Pain , Adipose Tissue , Arthralgia , Arthritis , Biopsy , Colchicine , Cytoplasm , Enophthalmos , Extremities , Fat Necrosis , Fatty Liver , Fever , Hydroxychloroquine , Inflammation , Macrophages , Panniculitis , Panniculitis, Nodular Nonsuppurative , Pericardial Effusion , Skin , Subcutaneous FatABSTRACT
Weber-Christian disease is an inflammatory disease of subcutaneous fat tissue which is characterized by relapsing, febrile tender nodules and histologically lobular panniculitis. Many cases originally considered as examples of Weber-Christian disease were later found to be other diseases when lobular panniculitis was reclassified, and some authors believe that Weber-Christian disease should no longer be considered as a distinctive entity. However, there are still occasional cases which cannot be diagnosed as other specific diseases but have the characteristic manifestations of Weber-Christian disease, and they attest to the fact that Weber-Christian disease could be a distinctive disease entity. We report here a case of Weber-Christian disease in a 22-year-old female who was treated successfully with steroid pulse therapy.
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Female , Humans , Young Adult , Panniculitis , Panniculitis, Nodular Nonsuppurative , Subcutaneous FatABSTRACT
Weber-Christian disease is an inflammatory disease of subcutneious fat tissue which is clinically characterized by relapsing, febrile, nodular, nonsuppurative pannicutilitiy. The cause is unknown, but the disease has been attributed to an autoimmune reaction, infectioris, halogen compounds, sarcoidosis, SLE and a-antitrypsin deficiency. We report here in a case of Weber-Christian disease in a 8-year-old girl, who had indurated erythemataus subcutaneous nodules on the extremities, buttock and trunk accompanied by various general symptoms such as fever, malaise, arthralgia and edema of the abclorren and legs. This case was successfully treated with dapsone,