Systemic Vasculitides: Current Status and Perspectives

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dammacco, Franco (Editor), Ribatti, Domenico (Editor), Vacca, Angelo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Virology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

The systemic vasculitides,includinglarge, medium, small, and variable vessel vasculitis,have been the focus of intensive basic and clinical investigations over the last twodecades. Among theimportant advances stemming from these efforts are new definitions, classifications, and diagnostic criteria f...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introductory remarks
• Giant Cell Arteritis
• Takayasu Arteritis
• Polyarteritis Nodosa
• Mechanisms of ANCA-Associated Vasculitides
• Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (Wegener’s) and Similar “AAV with Probable Etiology”
• Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (Churg Strauss)
• Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease
• IgA Vasculitis
• HCV-Related Cryoglobulinemic Vasculitis
• Vasculitis and Pulmonary Hypertension: New Therapeutic Approaches
• Vasculitis in SLE, RA and Other Connective Tissue Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment
• Central Nervous System Vasculitis
• Uveitis
• IgG4 Syndrome
• Behçet Syndrome
• Urticarioid Vasculitis
• Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Vasculitides
• Index.