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The arteritides
Author(s) -
PARUMS D.V.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
histopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.626
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1365-2559
pISSN - 0309-0167
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2559.1994.tb00593.x
Subject(s) - medicine , vasculitis , arteritis , polyarteritis nodosa , systemic vasculitis , kawasaki disease , dermatology , systemic disease , purpura (gastropod) , giant cell arteritis , pathology , cryoglobulinemia , necrotizing vasculitis , disease , immunology , ecology , hepatitis c virus , virus , artery , biology
This article reviews the histopathological, clinical and immunological features of the arteritides. Based on these criteria, a classification scheme is proposed that includes infectious and non‐infectious causes. Included in the non‐infectious arteritides are: hypersensitivity vasculitis including serum sickness, Henoch–Schönlein purpura, mixed cryoglobulinaemia, hypocomplementaemia, drug and malignancy‐associated vasculitis; arteritides of small and medium‐sized arteries including polyarteritis nodosa, Kawasaki's disease, Wegener's granulomatosis, Churg–Strauss syndrome, necrotizing sarcoid granulomatosis, thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease) and localized forms of arteritis; arteritides involving large, medium and small‐sized arteries which includes giant cell (temporal) arteritis, Takayasu's disease and arteritis of collagen‐vascular disease (rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever, Behçet's disease, Sjögren's syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosis and systemic sclerosis).