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1
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What are the reasons inflammation of vessel walls?

A
  • Immune related -inflammation
  • Infection
  • Physical or chemical injury
2
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What are the large vessels of diseases?

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Giant cell arteritis (temporal) and Takayasu

3
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What are the medium vessels called?

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  • Buerger’s (thromboangitis obliterans)
  • Kawasaki disease
  • Polyarteritis nodosa
4
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What are the small vessels called?

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Granulomatosis with polyangitis (Wegener’ s granulomatosis)

5
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The 2 types of Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs)

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Two Types:-
C-ANCA (cytoplasmic staining) is typically found in Wegener granulomatosis
P-ANCA (perinuclear staining) is found in most cases of microscopic polyangiitis and Churg-Strauss syndrome.