The term vasculitis encompasses a number of distinct clinicopathologic disease entities, each of which is characterized pathologically by cellular inflammation and destruction of the blood vessel wall, and clinically by the types and locations of the affected vessels. While multiple classification schemes have been proposed to categorize and simplify the approach to these diseases, ultimately t...

Background: Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease is rare in young adults aged 40 years or less. However, South Asia among the top 3 of countries with highest proportion cases first acute syndrome events occurring at age This study was to explore extent and pattern angiographic patients ischemic heart Methods: cross-sectional retrospective descriptive included 140 who had angiography for Depa...

Giant cell arteritis is a large- and medium-vessel vasculitis that has been described as a systemic disease process with disseminated vessel involvement. Advances in vascular imaging techniques have demonstrated that involvement of the large vessels of the upper and lower limbs may be more prevalent than was once thought, although the clinical implications of this are unknown. Isolated lower ex...

POEMS syndrome is a rare conglomeration of disorders associated with plasma cell dyscrasia. The acronym POEMS is derived from main features of the syndrome namely 'polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy and skin lesions'. Other clinical features include presence of sclerotic bone lesions, Castleman's disease, papilledema, pleural effusion, edema, ascites, erythrocyt...

The term vasculitis describes a variety of inflammatory changes in vessels. The most common type to affect the skin is a necrotizing venulitis associated with a neutrophilic polymorphonuclear leukocyte infiltrate. The most frequent presentation is palpable purpura on the lower extremities, but the lesions may include urticaria and ulcers. A diagnosis of cutaneous necrotizing venulitis obliges ...

background: alpha-thalassemia syndrome includes a group of hereditary anemia in which expression of alpha globin chains is decreased or absent. impaired rbc in patients with thalassemia causes vessel involvement and endothelial cell vessel disturbance. vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) is the most important regulator for endothelial cell proliferation. so, the aim of this study is to co...

Lymphovascular space invasion was shown to play a key role in the progression of cervical cancer. Because of the absence of a specific marker for lymphatic vessels, earlier studies could not reliably distinguish between blood and lymphatic vessel invasion. By immunostaining for podoplanin, a novel marker for lymphatic endothelium, and for factor VIII-related antigen, we determined lymphatic and...