systemic vasculitis
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- Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a rare systemic vasculitis occurring in patients with a history of asthma or allergy and eosinophilia.
- Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an inflammatory disease affecting the medium- and large-sized arteries.
- Systemic sclerosis (SS) is an uncommon disease characterized by small blood vessel vasculopathy and increased connective tissue in the skin and in other organs.
- Behçet's disease is a multisystem inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology characterized by vasculitis of large and smaller vessels.
- The anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitides (AAVs) are a group of disorders involving severe, systemic, small-vessel vasculitis and are characterized by the development of autoantibodies to the neutrophil proteins leukocyte proteinase 3 (PR3-ANCA) or myeloperoxidase (MPO-ANCA).
- Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is one of the most common small- and medium-sized necrotizing vasculitides that mainly affects the upper and lower respiratory tract and the kidneys.
- The typical clinical cause of articular pigmented villonodular synovitis consists of progressive and painful swelling of the involved joints, bursae and tendons.
- Takayasu vasculitis is a rare type of large vessel vasculitis that primarily affects the aorta and its main branches; signs and symptoms are usually due to systemic inflammation or ischemia of an organ depending on the group of blood vessels involved.