Some others include: Lupus vasculitis usually affects your small blood vessels, or capillaries. Less commonly, you can get inflammation in medium and large blood vessels -- your veins and arteries.

This article covers the types, symptoms, causes, and treatments of vasculitis. Buerger’s disease affects the small and medium blood vessels in the arms and legs. The blood vessels swell and ...

The classification is as follows: Systemic vasculitis: Large-vessel vasculitis, giant cell arteritis, Takayasu arteritis Medium-vessel vasculitis: Polyarteritis nodosa, Kawasaki disease Small ...

PAN is a necrotizing vasculitis, predominantly of the medium vessels, that affects all major organ systems. Arterial wall weakening and microaneurysm formation are features of the disease.

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis Granulomatous inflammation involving the respiratory tract and necrotizing vasculitis affecting small-to-medium sized vessels (e.g., capillaries, venules ...

Vasculitis is divided into large vessel vasculitis, medium vessel vasculitis, small vessel vasculitis, immune complex small vessel vasculitis, variable vessels vasculitis, single organ vasculitis ...

A CNS-tissue biopsy showing vasculitis can provide a definitive diagnosis. Small-vessel and medium-to-large-vessel inflammatory involvement characterize two subsets of primary CNS vasculitis with ...

Rheumatoid vasculitis (RV) is a rare and potentially severe complication of long-term rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RV causes small or medium-sized blood vessels in various parts of your body to ...

EULAR first wrote recommendations for small and medium vessel vasculitis in 2009; this was subsequently updated in 2016 with more of a focus on AAV. The new 2022 update includes substantial ...

This condition causes blood vessel walls to swell ... drugs are the main drug options for treating vasculitis. Corticosteroids Medium to high doses of steroids such as prednisone are used to ...