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  2. Microscopic polyangiitis - Wikipedia

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    These antibodies will circulate at low levels until an environmental trigger—such as infection, malignancy, or drug therapy, causes the upregulation of neutrophils. The neutrophils bind to p-ANCAs and subsequently release inflammatory cytokines, reactive oxygen species and lytic enzymes that cause endothelial injury resulting to inflammation ...

  3. Systemic vasculitis - Wikipedia

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    Tumors, medications, allergic reactions, and infectious organisms are some of the recognized triggers for these conditions, even though the precise cause of many of them is unknown. Immune complex disease, anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies , anti-endothelial cell antibodies, and cell-mediated immunity are examples of pathogenetic factors.

  4. Vasculitis - Wikipedia

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    Vasculitis frequently coexists with infections, and several infections, including hepatitis B and C, HIV, infective endocarditis, and tuberculosis, are significant secondary causes of vasculitis. [35] Except for rheumatoid vasculitis, the majority of secondary vasculitis forms are exceedingly rare. [36]

  5. List of SJS-inducing substances - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of drugs and substances that are known or suspected to cause Stevens–Johnson syndrome This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .

  6. Cerebral vasculitis - Wikipedia

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    Cerebral vasculitis (sometimes the word angiitis is used instead of "vasculitis") is vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessel wall) involving the brain and occasionally the spinal cord. [1] It affects all of the vessels: very small blood vessels ( capillaries ), medium-size blood vessels ( arterioles and venules ), or large blood vessels ...

  7. Cutaneous small-vessel vasculitis - Wikipedia

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    Treatment should be directed towards the specific underlying cause of the vasculitis. If no underlying cause is found and the vasculitis is truly limited to the skin then treatment is primarily supportive. [13] Such treatment involves measures such as leg elevation, stockings, and topical steroids to relieve itching/burning. If the vasculitis ...

  8. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis - Wikipedia

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    Photo showing the sclerokeratitis associated with GPA within the arterial wall or; in the perivascular area; According to the Chapel Hill Consensus Conference (CHCC) on the nomenclature of systemic vasculitis (1992), establishing the diagnosis of GPA demands: [22] a granulomatous inflammation involving the respiratory tract, and

  9. Polyarteritis nodosa - Wikipedia

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    Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a systemic necrotizing inflammation of blood vessels (vasculitis) affecting medium-sized muscular arteries, typically involving the arteries of the kidneys and other internal organs but generally sparing the lungs' circulation. [3]

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