Vaskulitis bei Kindern

Vaskulitis bei Kindern


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Vasculitis describes generalized inflammation of vessels. Vasculitides carry a broad range of clinical presentations and as a whole can involve almost any organ system.

Pathology

Some vasculitides are due to direct vessel injury from an infectious agent. However a large proportion show evidence of immune complex related vessel wall injury.

Classification

There are many, often overlapping, types of classification:

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