Autoantibodies and Systemic vasculitis

The term vasculitis includes a heterogeneous group of diseases that have in common inflammatory injury of the blood vessels. The evolution of this inflammatory process leads to ischemia or, sometimes, haemorrhage of the organs dependent on these vessels. The location of the affected vessels and tiss...

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Autores principales: Alba, Paula, Bertolacini, María Laura, Khasmashta, Munther A.
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad Nacional Cba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnología 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/med/article/view/22576
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topic autoantibodies
systemic vasculitis
autoanticuerpos
vasculitis sistémicas
spellingShingle autoantibodies
systemic vasculitis
autoanticuerpos
vasculitis sistémicas
Alba, Paula
Bertolacini, María Laura
Khasmashta, Munther A.
Autoantibodies and Systemic vasculitis
topic_facet autoantibodies
systemic vasculitis
autoanticuerpos
vasculitis sistémicas
author Alba, Paula
Bertolacini, María Laura
Khasmashta, Munther A.
author_facet Alba, Paula
Bertolacini, María Laura
Khasmashta, Munther A.
author_sort Alba, Paula
title Autoantibodies and Systemic vasculitis
title_short Autoantibodies and Systemic vasculitis
title_full Autoantibodies and Systemic vasculitis
title_fullStr Autoantibodies and Systemic vasculitis
title_full_unstemmed Autoantibodies and Systemic vasculitis
title_sort autoantibodies and systemic vasculitis
description The term vasculitis includes a heterogeneous group of diseases that have in common inflammatory injury of the blood vessels. The evolution of this inflammatory process leads to ischemia or, sometimes, haemorrhage of the organs dependent on these vessels. The location of the affected vessels and tissues will determine the appearance of a wide variety of clinical manifestations and, therefore, a very variable prognosis.The different entities grouped under the term vasculitis include Wegener's granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, classical panarteritis nodosa, microscopic polyangeitis, Kawasaki disease and classical leukocyte vasculitis, which predominantly affect small and medium-sized vessels. Giant cell arteritis and Takayasu arteritis mainly affect large vessels. We can find primary vasculitis (without association with another underlying disease) or secondary to both infectious processes and autoimmune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, etc.). Neutrophil anticitoplasma antibodies (ANCA) were initially described by Davies et al. (2) in patients with glomerulonephritis. They are directed against enzymes present in the granules.
publisher Universidad Nacional Cba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnología
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