of Churg–Strauss vasculitis (CSV) is 2.5 per 100 000 people per year. It is characterized by pulmonary and systemic necrotizing vasculitis, vascular or extravascular granuloma, eosinophilia and tissue infiltration by eosinophils, and nonspecific elevation in the immunoglobulin E level. It is also found in those with asthma and allergic rhinitis or sinonasal polyposis. Coarse granular and perinu...

Benign angiopathy of the central nervous system is a subset of primary angiitis of the central nervous system characterized by "benign" course. It means that changes of cerebral vessels are reversible after treatment with corticosteroids and calcium channel blockers, so these abnormalities are believed to reflect vasospasm rather than true vasculitis. The diagnosis is made on the basis of clini...

Received: Revised: Accepted: October 18, 2014 February 01, 2015 February 02, 2015 A 5-year-old, 5.4 kg, intact female mixed-breed dog presented with acute respiratory distress. Echocardiography showed pulmonary valvular stenosis with narrowing valvular annulus, ventricular septal defect, overriding aorta and the right ventricular hypertrophy. Other concurrent abnormality included sternal deform...

A 24 years old man with known history of asthma came acute presentation ascending weakness for4 days following flu like symptoms and worsening asthma. His complete blood counts showed elevated eosinophil count. Nerve conduction neuropathy. Diagnosed Churg Strauss syndrome due to presence asthma, eosinophilia, neuropathy pulmonary infiltrates. is systemic eosinophilic vasculitis involving multip...

INTRODUCTION Kawasaki disease is regarded as systemic vasculitis. Many experts believe that not only coronary arteries but also other small arteries are involved during the period of systemic inflammation. However, the evidence to support this point view is limited. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a one-year-four-month-old Taiwanese girl whose patent ductus arteriosus was incidentally...

Lung involvement in FMF is limited mainly to transient pleuritis during acute attacks. Amyloidosis of the lung is rare and is associated with symptomatic involvement of other organs while remaining subclinical in itself. Vasculitis of the lung in FMF is possible because of the strong association between FMF and a variety of vasculitides. With the exception of one case of isolated pulmonary vasc...

Vasculitis is an inflammatory disease of blood vessels that can affect all types of vessels in any organ of the body, including the vessels of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. It may be secondary to systemic disorders, such as connective tissue disease (e.g., systemic lupus erythematosus, and rheumatoid arthritis), infection (e.g., bacterial endocarditis), malignancy, or drugs. Primary localize...

Acute pancreatitis or a pancreatic mass is a very rare initial presentation of Wegener's granu-lomatosis. A 62-year-old woman presented with tumor-like pancreatitis and otitis media Abdominal ultrasound and magnetic resonance suggested the presence of pancreatic tumor. Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration was negative. Distal pancreatic resection and splenectomy were performed and histopath...

Kawasaki disease (KD) was first described in Japan in 1967 by Tomisaku Kawasaki [1]. It is an acute, systemic, self-limited vasculitis, whose targets are medium diameter vessels in each organ and apparatus. It is a vasculitis of unknown aetiology, probably multifactorial, that occurs predominantly in infants and young children. The most important complications are coronary arteries aneurysms or...

OBJECTIVE To describe a rare case of moyamoya syndrome associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 22-year-old woman presented with left-sided hemiparesis in addition to fever, fatigue and malar rash. Brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed acute infarction in the right middle cerebral artery territory. Cerebral angiography showed features of moyamoya...