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  2. Systemic vasculitis - Wikipedia

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    Necrotizing vasculitis, also called systemic necrotizing vasculitis, [1] is a general term for the inflammation of veins and arteries that develops into necrosis and narrows the vessels. [ 2 ] Tumors , medications, allergic reactions , and infectious organisms are some of the recognized triggers for these conditions, even though the precise ...

  3. Vasculitis - Wikipedia

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    The definite diagnosis of vasculitis is established after a biopsy of involved organ or tissue, such as skin, sinuses, lung, nerve, brain, and kidney. The biopsy elucidates the pattern of blood vessel inflammation. Some types of vasculitis display leukocytoclasis, which is vascular damage caused by nuclear debris from infiltrating neutrophils. [37]

  4. List of autoimmune diseases - Wikipedia

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    IgA vasculitis (IgAV) Small vessels in skin, joints, kidneys, gastrointestinal tract IgA immune complexes Probable [37] Leukocytoclastic vasculitis: Small vessels in skin Various immune complexes Probable [38] Lupus vasculitis: Small to medium vessels in multiple organs ANA, anti-dsDNA, anti-Smith, others Confirmed [39] Rheumatoid vasculitis

  5. Retinal vasculitis - Wikipedia

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    Retinal vasculitis is inflammation of the vascular branches of the retinal artery, caused either by primary ocular disease processes, or as a specific presentation of any systemic form of vasculitis such as Behçet's disease, sarcoidosis, multiple sclerosis, or any form of systemic necrotizing vasculitis such as temporal arteritis, polyarteritis nodosa, and granulomatosis with polyangiitis, or ...

  6. Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis - Wikipedia

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    Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis is a form of inflammation affecting the blood vessels caused by the deposition of abnormal proteins called cryoglobulins. These immunoglobulin proteins are soluble at normal body temperatures, but become insoluble below 37 °C (98.6 °F) and subsequently may aggregate within smaller blood vessels.

  7. Ashton Kutcher details vasculitis symptoms: 'Lucky to be alive'

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  8. Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis - Wikipedia

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    Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis consists of three stages, but not all patients develop all three stages or progress from one stage to the next in the same order; [7] whereas some patients may develop severe or life-threatening complications such as gastrointestinal involvement and heart disease, some patients are only mildly affected, e.g. with skin lesions and nasal polyps. [8]

  9. 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 ...