Classification of Vasculitis
Vasculitis of large vessels
- Arteritis temporalis (giant-cell arteritis)
- Takayasu arteritis
- Inflammatory aortic aneurysms (in possible combination with retroperitoneal fibrosis)
Vasculitis of medium vessels
- Classical polyarteritis nodosa
- Buerger disease
- Kawasaki disease
- Primary angiitis of the central nervous system
Vasculitis of small vessels
- ANCA-associated vasculitis
- Wegener granulomatosis
- microscopic polyangiitis
- Churg-Strauss syndrome
- Immune-complex-induced vasculitis
- hypersensitivity angiitis induced by drugs, malignomas, and infectious diseases
- serum disease
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- Henoch-Schönlein disease
- purpura-arthralgia-nephritis syndrome induced by chronic hepatitis C
- Goodpasture syndrome
- Behcet disease
- hypocomplementary urticarial vasculitis
- Schnitzler syndrome
- Connective tissue diseases
- scleroderma
- mixed connective tissue disease
- Sjögren syndrome
- dermatomyositis
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