ABSTRACT
DEFINITION ●● Vasculitis is dened by inammation of blood vessels anywhere in the body.
AETIOLOGY
Primary autoimmune ●● Large vessel:
●● Giant cell (temporal) arteritis (GCA) ●● Takayasu arteritis
●● Medium vessel: ●● Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) ●● Kawasaki’s disease
●● Small ± medium vessel: ●● Microscopic polyangiitis ●● Wegener’s granulomatosis ●● Churg-Strauss syndrome ●● Goodpasture syndrome ●● Vasculitis from connective tissue diseases, e.g. systemic lupus
erythromatosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Sjögren’s syndrome ●● Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) ●● Behçet syndrome.
