Infections and systemic vasculitis (SV) are characterized by mutual influence, which increases the risk of occurrence, aggravates course outcome disease. The review considers issues related to both trigger role infections in development SV comorbid (CI) that complicate Recognition infectious etiology is great importance, since it requires a comprehensive examination and, if necessary, early com...

Assessment of disease severity in systemic vasculitis encompasses mortality, which is now uncommon, and morbidity, which is increasing in significance. Morbidity includes permanent scars or damage, an evolving concept offering a novel perspective which may be particularly valuable in chronic disease. We have developed a method for assessing damage in systemic vasculitis, but the relationship be...

Although vasculitis involving the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is an uncommon occurrence, occasionally vasculitis can present as haemorrhagic infarction or ischaemia for which a length of bowel is removed. Invariably, the appropriate clinical history is not forthcoming, or vasculitis is not clinically suspected. The purpose of this overview is to provide the practising gastrointestinal (GI) pat...

Systemic vasculitis, an inflammatory necrotizing disease of the blood vessel walls, can occur secondary to autoimmune diseases, including connective tissue diseases. Various pathogenic mechanisms have been implicated in the induction of vasculitis, including cell-mediated inflammation, immune complex-mediated inflammation and autoantibody-mediated inflammation. This inflammatory activity is bel...

Systemic vasculitis, an inflammatory necrotizing disease of the blood vessel walls, can occur secondary to autoimmune diseases, including connective tissue diseases. Various pathogenic mechanisms have been implicated in the induction of vasculitis, including cell-mediated inflammation, immune complex-mediated inflammation and autoantibody-mediated inflammation. This inflammatory activity is bel...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is involved in the disease activity of systemic vasculitis. METHODS Patients with systemic vasculitis were divided into three groups based on the size of the affected vessels. Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) was considered as small vessel vasculitis (SVV), polyarteritis nodosa as medium-sized vessel vasculitis (...

BACKGROUND/AIM Vasculitis is a clinical, pathologic process characterized by inflammation and necrosis of blood vessel occuring anywhere in the body. The aim of the study was to present some clinical and immunologic features of retinal vasculitis in systemic diseases: systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, sarcoidosis, Behcet's diseases, and others. METHODS A total of 1 254 peatien...

kawasaki disease is a systemic vasculitis of children. among gastrointestinal symptoms of this disease jaundice occurs uncommonly. we present a 23 month boy with icter and clinical hepatitis and final diagnosis of kawasaki disease.

The systemic vasculitides (SV) are a heterogeneous group of rare affections, characterized by a primary process of inflammation and damage of the vessel wall, resulting in blood flow impairment and, ultimately, in ischemia of the distal tissues. Pulmonary vasculitis usually is a component of a systemic small vessel vasculitis. Pulmonary vasculitides can be classified into three major groups: a)...