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  2. Chapel Hill Consensus Conference - Wikipedia

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    Classification Group Diseases Large-vessel vasculitis (LVV) Takayasu's arteritis (TAK); Giant-cell arteritis (GCA) Medium-vessel vasculitis (MVV) Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN), Kawasaki disease (KD) Small vessel vasculitis (SVV) ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV); Immune complex SVV Variable vessel vasculitis (VVV) Behcet's disease (BD); Cogan's ...

  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. 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 ...

  5. Pain scale - Wikipedia

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    A Chinese pain scale diagram, rating pain on a scale of 1 to 10. A pain scale measures a patient's pain intensity or other features. Pain scales are a common communication tool in medical contexts, and are used in a variety of medical settings. Pain scales are a necessity to assist with better assessment of pain and patient screening.

  6. Category:Pain scales - Wikipedia

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    Pain scales are tools that can help health care providers diagnose or measure a patients pain's intensity. The most widely used scales are visual , verbal , numerical or some combination of all three forms.

  7. Cutaneous small-vessel vasculitis - Wikipedia

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    IgA vasculitis is more likely to present with abdominal pain, bloody urine, and joint pain. [13] In the case that the cause is not obvious, a reasonable initial workup would include a complete blood count, urinalysis, basic metabolic panel, fecal occult blood testing, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and C-reactive protein level. [ 13 ]

  8. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis - Wikipedia

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    If the person has signs of kidney involvement or cutaneous vasculitis, a biopsy is obtained from the kidneys. Rarely, a thoracoscopic lung biopsy is required. On histopathological examination, a biopsy will show leukocytoclastic vasculitis with necrotic changes and granulomatous inflammation (clumps of typically arranged white blood cells) on ...

  9. Microscopic polyangiitis - Wikipedia

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    Clinical features may include constitutional symptoms like fever, arthralgia, myalgia, loss of appetite, weight loss and fatigue.A variety of organs can be affected, which causes a wide range of symptoms such as cough, shortness of breath, hemoptysis (coughing up of blood), symptoms of kidney failure, skin manifestations (palpable purpura and livedo racemosa [1]), seizures or peripheral ...