Vasculitis

Vasculitis is an inflammation of your blood vessels, which include your veins, arteries and capillaries. Also called angiitis, vasculitis causes changes in the walls of your blood vessels, such as thickening, weakening, narrowing and scarring.
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Vasculitis occurs because of inflammation and damage to blood vessels. The inflammation of allergic vasculitis is the result of an allergic reaction to a drug or other foreign agent.
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Retinal vasculitis: The retina is the portion of the eye that contains the nerves of sensation that perceive light. It is also filled with tiny blood vessels.
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Alternate Names
: Cutaneous Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis, Vasculitis - Allergic Hypersensitivity
See all Pictures & Images Allergic Vasculitis Prevention
Avoid exposure to medications to which there are known allergies.
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VASCULITIS: Inflammation of a blood vessel or lymph vessel.
VASOCONSTRICTION: Narrowing of the blood vessels.
VECTOR: A nonpathogenic bacterium or virus used to transport an antigen into the body to stimulate protective immunity (eg, in vaccine).
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Vasculitis. A group of autoimmune disorders in which the immune system attacks and destroys blood vessels.
Type I diabetes mellitus. May be caused by an antibody that attacks and destroys the islet cells of the pancreas, which produce insulin.
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Vasculitis may also affect the brain, nerves, and heart causing strokes, sensory neuropathies (numbness and tingling), heart attacks, or heart failure.
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Wegener vasculitis - A progressive disease that leads to widespread inflammation of all of the organs in the body.
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Necrotizing vasculitis
Amyloidosis (sural nerve biopsy is most often used)
Sarcoidosis
Leprosy
Metabolic neuropathies
Inflammation of the nerve
Loss of axon tissue
Demyelination ...
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Polyarteritis nodosa is a rare, but potentially life threatening, inflammation of the blood vessels (vasculitis) that damages the walls of the body's small- and medium-sized arteries.
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In adults, diseases that frequently underlie nephritis include vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels), pneumonia, abscesses, infections such as measles, mumps or glandular fever, ...
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[3] Autoimmune phenomena, including pyoderma gangrenosum, vasculitis, and idiopathic thrombocytopenia have been observed in CMML.
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Also known as thromboangiitis obliterans, Buerger disease is a rare type of peripheral vascular disease that involves inflammation of the smaller arteries in the extremities (vasculitis).
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Inflammation of the blood vessels (vasculitis), which may result in kidney disease, arthritis, abdominal pain, inflammation of a nerve (mononeuritis), and Raynaud's phenomenon.
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Virgo ANCA (antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies) screen; Virgo cANCA and pANCA assays To aid in the diagnosis of Wegener syndrome, a condition characterized by vasculitis, granulomatous lesions of the respiratory tract, and glomerulonephritis.
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LUPUS - A systemic disease that results from an autoimmune mechanism. Individuals with lupus will produce antibodies to their own body tissues. The resultant inflammation can cause kidney damage, arthritis, pericarditis, and vasculitis.
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endotoxin; endotoxins; endotoxin shock; endotracheal; endotracheal anaesthesia; endotracheal intubation; endotracheal stylet; endotracheal tube; endotrachelitis; endourology; endovaccination; endovaginal ultrasonography; endovasculitis; endovenous; ...
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