POLYARTERITIS NODOSA
Location 3
- necrotizing vasculitis.
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- Others
- Churg-Strauss syndrome,
- microscopic PAN,
- Kawasaki disease,
- rheumatoid vasculitis,
- Wegener granulomatosis, and
- hypersensitivity vasculitis
- medium or small caliber arteries – occasionally small veins
- Cause
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- M:F .2:1
- 5th?7th decades.
- immune complex deposition
- necrosis and destruction of the walls of vessels.
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- kidneys70-80%
- heart spleen lung – rare
- diagnosis
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- clinical symptoms and laboratory data,
- biopsy
- angiogram provides the proof in some cases.
- microaneurysms in medium or small arteries.
- stenosis
- occlusion
Links and References
TCV Case Report
Wiki
Radiographics
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