Spectrum of Large and Medium Vessel Vasculitis in Adults: Primary Vasculitides, Arthritides, Connective Tissue, and Fibroinflammatory Diseases.

Seitz, Luca; Seitz, Pascal; Pop, Roxana; Lötscher, Fabian (2022). Spectrum of Large and Medium Vessel Vasculitis in Adults: Primary Vasculitides, Arthritides, Connective Tissue, and Fibroinflammatory Diseases. Current rheumatology reports, 24(11), pp. 352-370. Springer 10.1007/s11926-022-01086-2

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW

To provide a comprehensive overview of the spectrum of large and medium vessel vasculitis in adults with primary vasculitides, arthritides, connective tissue, and fibroinflammatory diseases as well as vasculitis mimics, for an efficient differential diagnosis and initial diagnostic approach.

RECENT FINDINGS

Imaging has had a tremendous impact on the diagnosis of medium to large vessel vasculitis, now often replacing histopathologic confirmation and identifying new disease manifestations (e.g., intracranial disease in giant cell arteritis; vascular manifestations of IgG4-related disease). Novel diseases or syndromes involving blood vessels have been described (e.g., VEXAS-Syndrome with polychondritis). The use of the terms "medium" or "large" vessel varies considerably between medical specialties. The differential diagnosis of large and medium vessel vasculitis is becoming increasingly complex as new entities or disease manifestations of known inflammatory rheumatic diseases are regularly identified. A more precise and widely recognized definition of the vessel sizes would make future research more comparable.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Review Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Dermatology, Urology, Rheumatology, Nephrology, Osteoporosis (DURN) > Clinic of Rheumatology and Immunology

UniBE Contributor:

Seitz, Luca Fabio, Seitz, Pascal, Lötscher, Fabian

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1534-6307

Publisher:

Springer

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

29 Sep 2022 10:23

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:25

Publisher DOI:

10.1007/s11926-022-01086-2

PubMed ID:

36166150

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Aortitis Arthritis Connective tissue disease Differential diagnosis Fibroinflammatory disease Vasculitis

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/173350

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/173350

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