The systemic vasculitides are a diverse set of diseases linked by the presence of blood-vessel inflammation and are often associated with life-threatening or critical complications, including glomerulonephritis, diffuse alveolar haemorrhage,…
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Vasculitides may involve small, medium-sized or large arteries. In small-vessel vasculitides imaging studies of lungs, nasal sinuses, cerebrum, heart and other organs are important for determining disease extension and disease…
Despite the rarity of vasculitides, fertility and pregnancy outcome in the setting of vasculitis have become a major topic of interest within the past decade. The potential impact of vasculitis…
The primary vasculitides are a life- and organ-threatening set of diseases with a course often marked by alternating periods of active vasculitis and remission. As opposed to clinical trials within…
Thrombo-embolic disease is an increasingly recognised complication of several vasculitides. A common observation is that thrombo-embolic complications coincide with periods of increased vasculitis disease activity, but the mechanism through which…
Patients with different forms of systemic vasculitis experience long-term morbidity and mortality caused by cardiovascular disease due to premature atherosclerosis. Epidemiologic reports of patients with GCA suggest that long-term mortality…
In this review, we summarise the current understanding of the potential link between cancer and anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV), including granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener’s; GPA) and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA)….
Infections, mainly viral, are the cause of some vasculitides, like polyarteritis nodosa (hepatitis B virus) or mixed cryoglobulinemia (hepatitis C virus), and it has been hypothesized that others might be…
Classification criteria have an important role and practical use in everyday rheumatology. Improvement in therapy and our understanding of the aetiopathogenesis of vasculitis have driven the need to have better…
