See Also: Kussmaul's disease(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Kussmaul(medicine)
Kussmaul's aphasia(medicine)
Kussmaul's pulse(medicine)
Kussmaul Breathing(health)
Kussmaul's sign(medicine)
Kussmaul's symptom(medicine)
Kussmaul's coma(medicine)
Kussmaul respiration(medicine)

Kussmaul's disease (medicine)


Kussmaul's disease -->
polyarteritis nodosa
<radiology> Necrotizing vasculitis of medium-sized arteries, usually in male adults, associated with hepatitis B antigen, kidney: most frquently involved organ (85%), multiple small intrarenal aneurysms, aneurysms may disappear (thrombosis) or appear in new locations, arterial narrowing and thrombosis (chronic/healing stage), multiple small cortical infarcts, associated with hypertension and renal failure, chest involvement (70%), cardiomegaly/pericardial effusion (14%), wedge shaped/round peripheral infiltrates simulating PE (14%), interstitial lower lung field pneumonitis, also may involve liver (66%), mesenteric vessels (50%), skeletal muscle (39%), skin (20%)