BOTTOM LINE Vasculitis is a heterogenous group of diseases classified by blood vessel size. Large vessel vasculitis symptoms include claudication, bruits, aneurysms, asymmetrical blood pressures/pulses. Medium vessel includes skin nodules/ulcers,…
BOTTOM LINE GPA and MPA are distinct necrotizing small-size vessel anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitides (AAV) with overlapping features. GPA classically involves the upper respiratory tract (including destructive sinusitis), lungs…
BOTTOM LINE EGPA vasculitis (formerly “Churg-Strauss Syndrome”) is a small/medium vessel necrotizing granulomatous systemic vasculitis characterized by asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis with blood and tissue eosinophilia; systemic symptoms may include…
BOTTOM LINE Immune complex mediated vasculitis is a group of small vessel vasculitis caused by deposition of immunoglobulin and/or complement on vessel walls. Common features include purpuric skin rash, neuropathy,…
BOTTOM LINE Behcet’s disease (BD) is a variable vessel vasculitis (affecting small to large vessels of the venous and arterial system) most often affecting young adults and more frequently in…