Urticarial vasculitis is an autoimmune condition that causes itchy or painful hives. Some people may also develop inflammation in other organs, such as the kidneys or lungs. Vasculitis is a group ...

and include disorders such as leukocytoclastic vasculitis and urticarial vasculitis. The clinical presentation is diverse; lesions may appear as palpable purpura, persistent urticarial plaques ...

An initial baseline investigation with a complete blood count, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate, which is raised in urticarial vasculitis, should be considered in more severe cases. A search for ...

The word “vasculitis” means inflammation of the blood vessels. (“Vasc” refers to blood vessels and “itis” means inflammation.) Vasculitis can be a diagnosis in itself but more often it coexists with ...

Several forms of inflammation can be distinguished histologically; interestingly, although the disease typically presents with engorgement of scleral vessels, vasculitis is not universally present ...

HSS has been instrumental in bringing attention to scleroderma, vasculitis and myositis. We here at the SVM Center want to further those efforts by highlighting these conditions throughout the year.

The microbiome has been implicated in small-, medium-, large-, and variable-vessel vasculitis. Dysbiosis can frequently be found in vasculitis patients with altered microbial diversity and abundance, ...

PHILADELPHIA — Hypertension treatment and the role of cortisol in cardio-renal-metabolic health were among the featured topics from this year’s Heart in Diabetes CME Conference, according to ...

The European League Against Rheumatism recommendations for the management of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis have been recently published. Unique to recommendation ...

Background: Comprehensive multisystem clinical assessment using the Birmingham Vasculitis Activity score (BVAS) is widely used in therapeutic studies of systemic vasculitis. Extensive use suggested a ...

Objectives To describe short-term (up to 12 months) and long-term (up to 7 years) damage in patients with newly diagnosed antineutrophil-cytoplasm antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV). Methods Data ...