Description

Vasculitis is an inflammation of blood vessels. A more specific form, inflammation of arteries, is called arteritis. It causes changes in the walls of blood vessels, including thickening, weakening, narrowing and scarring. These changes restrict blood flow, resulting in organ and tissue damage.

There are many types of vasculitis, and most of them are rare. Vasculitis might affect just one organ, such as your skin, or it may involve several. The condition can be short term (acute) or long lasting (chronic).

Patient Groups

Vasculitis Foundation
CSS Association

Prevalence

See specific forms of vasculitis:

• Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis

• Behcet's disease

• Churg-Strauss syndrome

• Giant cell arteritis

• Granulomatosis with polyangiitis

• Hughes-Stovin syndrome

• Kawasaki's disease

• Leukocytoclastic vasculitis

• Lupus vasculitis

• Microscopic polyangiitis

• Polyarteritis nodosa

• Polymyalgia rheumatica

• Purpura rheumatica

• Rheumatoid vasculitis

• Urticarial vasculitis

Typical Age of onset

Multiple forms with varying age of onset

Symptoms

• Fever

• Headache

• Fatigue

• Weight loss

• General aches and pains

• Night sweats

• Rash

• Nerve problems, such as numbness or weakness

Sources:  Mayo Clinic, Healthline

Resources

Link to Clinical Trials

Link to Scientific Publications

References

Mayo Clinic