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 ...

Diagnosing systemic vasculitis remains a considerable clinical challenge, as does managing this disease after diagnosis. The general physician should have a working knowledge of vasculitis, including ...

The following is a summary of “Off-label use of biologics in urticarial vasculitis: a European retrospective cohort study,” published in the January 2025 issue of Rheumatology by Maisonobe et al.

Urticarial vasculitis is a rare form of vasculitis that manifests as recurrent wheal-like lesions lasting 24 hours or longer. 1,2 Close examination of the lesions reveals inflamed blood vessels as the ...

“Vasculitis” is the umbrella term for a group of rare diseases that cause inflammation of the blood vessels and impaired blood flow. Urticarial vasculitis is a type of vasculitis that ...

The review, published in the Journal of Cutaneous Pathology emphasizes that DIF testing plays a crucial role not only ... immunoglobulin deposition was able to differentiate between hypocomplementemic ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States 2 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ...

For patients with signs and symptoms indicative of urticarial vasculitis (UV), establishing a differential diagnosis often presents physicians with a host of challenges, in large part because of ...

Back to Healio Is it an allergy or an autoimmune vasculitis, or a little of both? Find out the story of urticarial vasculitis, how this disease was recognized and eventually sorted out from other ...

Chronic spontaneous urticaria or urticarial vasculitis remains a possible diagnosis, but the persistence of an urticarial lesion beyond 24 hours suggests that the latter diagnosis is more probable.