2025 Volume 61 Issue 7 Pages 1018-1023
More than half of children with IgA vasculitis suffer abdominal pain, and some of them have surgical complications. We present the case of a four-year-old boy with IgA vasculitis. He developed small intestinal intussusception and was admitted to our hospital after failure to treat the condition by hydrostatic methods. His abdominal symptoms improved after open reduction. However, he developed an intestinal perforation while receiving intravenous treatment with prednisolone, and reoperation was performed on postoperative day 10. During treatment for IgA vasculitis, especially with intravenous treatment with prednisolone, it is necessary to be careful of changes in abdominal symptoms and to keep in mind the possibility of intestinal perforation.
