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1
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What are some signs and symptoms of vasculitis in general?

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Fever, myalgia, arthralgia, malaise

  • Also palpable Purpura (these are just erythematous tender skin nodules), focal skin necrosis and ulceration
  • Livedo reticularis (this is a purplish discoloration of the skin due to dilation of the blood vessels,
  • Urticaria
2
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What is the key to diagnosis of vasculitis?

A

Distribution of organ involvement and histopathologic features

3
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What are the common causes of infectious vasculitis?

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Fungal (aspergillus)
Bacterial (Pseudomonas)
Viral (cytomegalovirus)

4
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In temporal giant cell arteritis, what are the Giant cells doing?

A

THey attack the internal elastic Lamina and destroy it.

- You get intimal thickening that can lead to stenosis

5
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Clinical manifestations of TGCA

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  • headache in 75% of pts
  • swollen tender artery
  • scalp tenderness
  • visual disturbances
  • jaw claudication
6
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Peripheral neuropathy most common with

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polyarteritis nodosa

7
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Nodular pulmonary infiltrates most associated with

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Granulomatosis with polyangiitis

8
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Infectious vasculitis may cause

A

mycotic aneurysm

9
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Inflammation in TGCA is

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Segmental, Transmural, granulomatous

10
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TGCA affects arteris of what size?

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Medium

11
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Why is it important that TGCA is segmental?

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Biopsies may be false negatives

12
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Why is is important that TGCA is transmural?

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More easily narrows the lumen…..whereas atherosclerosis takes 50 years to narrow your coronary, TGCA takes just a few years.

13
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Describe the inflammation of Takayasu Arteritis

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Segmental, Transmural, loosely grnulomatous, and …..Necrotizing

14
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Takayasu Arteritis can involve the aorta and cause

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dissection–> rupture –> hemopericardium– > DEAD

Basically Cardiac Tamponade (bunch of blood in the pericardium)

15
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Polyarteritis Nodosa inflammation is:

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Segmental, transmural, NODULAR

16
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What is the most characteristic feature of polyarteritis nodosa

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Fibrinoid necrosis

17
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Acute phase of PN

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  • neutrophils, intimal thickening, cell proliferation and degeneration, luminal stenosis
  • Also may see: thrombosis, occlusion, rupture…all of which occur at BRANCHPOINTS of the artery
18
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Later phases of PN

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Chronic inflammation, fibroblasts, scarring

19
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Unlike temporal arteritis, aneurysms are …. in PN

A

fairly common

20
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Lesions are at………..phases at the same time in PN

A

DIFFERENT

21
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Livedo reticularis can be a feature of

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PN….basically just looks like a net like rash…its dilated blood vessels so that makes sense

22
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Kawasaki disease features

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Endothelial necrosis + transmural inflammation with neutrophils, lymphocytes, wall necrosis,and aneurysms

23
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Aneurysms are most characteristic of which vasculitis?

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Kaawasaki

24
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What tests do we use for Kawasaki disease?

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There is no blood test. It is a clinical diagnosis based on history and physical

25
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Kawasaki’s disease is most common at what age?

A

1

26
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Describe Granulomatosis with polyangiitis

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Necrotizing granulomatous vasculitis of both ARTERIES AND VEINS in the UPPER AND LOWER RESP TRACT ANS KIDNEYS

27
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Histology of granulomatosis with polyangiitis looks like

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Geographic areas of necrosis with basophillic debris, BLUED

28
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ANCA-PR3

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Granulomatosis with Poly

29
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Signs and symptoms of granulomatosis with Poly

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Mucosal ulcers, necrotizing lesions, Nasal cartillage destruction

30
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Most common site of involvement on presentation with GP

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URT

31
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GP in the kidney?

A

Can have severe necrotizing vasculitis of the interlobar arteries

May also have glomerulonephritis

32
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What is Churg Strauss?

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Allergic granulomatosis with polyangitis

33
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Churg Straus Triad

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Asthma , eosinophilia, vasculitis

34
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Pathology of Churg Strauss?

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Wegeners + Eosinophils

35
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Brueger dz

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Acute buergers: segmental transmural acute inflammation without necrosis + thromboses
+ granulomas + giant cells

Chronic: organization of the thromous and fibrosis

36
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Beurgers is related to?

A

Smoking!! They must stop to prevent progression

37
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Hypersensitivity angiitis

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Affects VERY SMALL vessels

- Neutrophils infiltrate and break down dispersing nuclear dust

38
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In Hypersensitivity angiitis, pts have leasions that are…..

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ALL in the same phase

39
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Most common cause of Hypersensitivity angiitis in kids?

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URT…skin involvement, joint involvement, GI involvement, Renal involvement

40
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In adults the most common cause of hypersensitivity vasculitis is?

A

DRUGS…Sulfas, penicillin, cephalosporins, diuretics, phenytoin, allopurinol