71 Clinicians have found it convenient to use vessel size as one characteristic to help distinguish different forms of vasculitis from each other. This classification scheme has been a useful ...

Vasculitis is a group of diseases, also known as angiitis, that damage blood vessels by causing inflammation. It can affect any blood vessel anywhere in the body. Vasculitis means inflammation of ...

Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is the second most common autoimmune rheumatic disorder; giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most frequent vasculitis ... 2010 classification criteria for PMR recognize ...

An early diagnosis of antibody-associated vasculitis may be important to ... Researchers also used the Berden classification, renal risk score and Mayo Clinic scores in a subcohort of 214 patients ...