What is Vasculitis?
Vasculitis is an inflammation of a blood or lymph vessel. Vasculitis can be divided into three groups containing different diseases:
Large vessel Vasculitis
Giant cell (temporal) Arteritis, Takayasu‘s Arteritis
Medium-sized vessel Vasculitis
Polyarteritis Nodosa, Kawasaki‘s Disease
Small vessel Vasculitis
Wegener’s Granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss Syndrome, Mikroscopic Polyangiitis, Henoch-Schönlein Purpura, Essential Cryoglobulinaemic Vasculitis, Cutaneous Leukocytoclastic Angiitis.
What are the symptoms?
Symptoms in vasculitis may occure partly not always together.
Wegener’s Granulomatosis
Necrosis of the small and middle sized vessels, granuloma in nose, lung and kidney, involvement of the eye, the lung, the upper respiratory tract, glomerulonephritis, arthralgia.
Churg-Strauss Syndrome
Vasculitis of small to medium-sized vessels, asthma bronchiale, eosinophilia
Mikroscopic Polyangiitis
Necrosis of "microscopic“ vessels, glomerulonephritis, involment of liver and skin, arthralgia, coronary arteritis.
Necrotizing Crescentic Glomerulonephritis
Not systemic vasculitis of kidney vessels.
Please note that many of these diseases are very rare.
Should you suffer from similar symptoms, please consult your physician.
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