This report illustrates a case of peripheral nerve vasculitis associated with elevated anticardiolipin antibodies. A 49-year-old female with a history of seven spontaneous abortions initially complained of pain and numbness in her right calf that later spread to the left foot and ankle. Over the next few months, she developed a Raynaud phenomenon and livedo reticularis. Clinical examination rev...

primary angiitis of the central nervous system (pacns) is an idiopathic disorder (vasculitis) restricted to the central nervous system (cns). it often presents with focal neurological deficits suggesting stroke or a combination of confusion and headache. we herein report three cases with various combinations of fever, partial seizure, encephalopathy, paresis, headache and ataxia. one of them wa...

purpose: to report a case of idiopathic retinal vasculitis, aneurysm, and retinitis [irvan] with angiographic and optical coherence tomography (oct) findings. case report: a 15-year-old girl with a 2 -month history of decreased visual acuity in both eyes and best corrected visual acuity of 20/70 in both eyes was referred to the retina clinic. mild inflammation was present in anterior chamber an...

Pauci -immune necrotising glomerulonephritis with extracapillary proliferation is a common renal histological manifestation of systemic vasculitis. Although its aetiopathogenesis is not well known, it is possible that environmental factors may have a bearing on genetically predisposed subjects, since there are many familial cases of systemic vasculitis. The frequent association between systemic...

Although the presence of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) has been reported in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), the association of SSc and systemic vasculitis has rarely been described. We obtained information on cases of systemic vasculitis associated with SSc in France from the French Vasculitis Study Group and all members of the French Research Group on Systemic Sclerosis....

PURPOSE To identify significant fluorescein angiographic (FA) characteristics associated with visual acuity (VA) in Behçet retinal vasculitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective review of 86 eyes of 48 patients (age: 35.6±10.2 years) with Behçet retinal vasculitis were performed. VA and FA findings as well as correlation between them were assessed. RESULTS The mean initial VA of eyes with ...

OBJECTIVES Our objective is to explore how vasculitis affects patients' friendships and social participation. METHODS Vasculitis patients (n=221) completed an online questionnaire that asked if, and how, relationships with friends have changed since receiving a vasculitis diagnosis. Participants' written responses were imported into Atlas.ti, and two independent researchers used both structur...

Vasculitis syndrome comprises a heterogenic group of inflammatory rheumatic diseases whose common feature is inflammation in the blood vessel wall. Establishing the diagnosis of vasculitis is one of the greatest challenges in medicine. Clinical presentation of vasculitis depends on the extent of an organ system affection, as well as on the total number of affected organs. A great range of clini...

Antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody associated vasculitis has been transformed from life-threatening conditions to chronic relapsing long-term diseases as a result of significant advances in immunosuppressive therapy. Although mortality still occurs, it is much less frequent, with an average 5-year survival of over 70 %. In the setting of chronic conditions, it becomes increasingly important to m...

Writing in the journal Current Opinion in Rheumatology Turkish researchers review the current literature on gastrointestinal involvement in different types of vasculitis. They address the variability of gastrointestinal involvement and of clinical findings, as well as treatment. An inflammatory bowel disease diagnosis usually precedes a diagnosis of vasculitis. A systematic review of the litera...