Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Vasculitis
- Infectious vasculitis
- Non-infectious vasculities
- Giant cell temporal arteritis
- Granulomatous lesion
- May include blindness
if ophthalmic artery is
involved
- Intimal thickening
- Infiltration by
lymphocytes,
macrophages, &
multinucleate giant
cells
- Fragmentation of
internal elastic lamina
- Polyarteritis Nodosa
- Young adults; abdominal
pain, hypertension
- Affects the viscera,
kidney, heart, liver, spleen
- Thrombosis
- Infiltration of
neutrophils, monocytes
and fibrinoid necrosis
- Associated with hepatitis B
- Immune complexes
of hepatitis B antigen
in the affected
vessels
- Ischemic infarcts, hemorrhage
- Wegener's Granulamatosis
- Affects the lung,
nose, pharynx, throat,
palate,pharynxURT
- Vasculitis
- Granuloma in the lungs
- Glomerulonephritis
- Thromboangitis obliterans
(Buerger Disease)
- Secondary Raynaud phenomenon
- In excessive heavy smokers
- Gangrene of the lower extremities
- Thrombosis in the radial artery and
tibial artery
- Granulomatous inflammation
- Common symptoms
- Fever
- Malaise
- Arthralgia
- Myalgia