Differentiating vasculitis from other diseases: Difference between revisions

	Vasculitis
Overview
Classification Large-sized vessel vasculitis Takayasu's Arteritis Temporal Arteritis Medium-sized vessel vasculitis Kawasaki's Disease Polyarteritis Nodosa Small-sized vessel vasculitis Churg-Strauss Syndrome Cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis Essential cryoglobulinemic vasculitis Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Microscopic polyangiitis Wegener's Granulomatosis Variable-sized vessel vasculitis Sjogren syndrome Cogan syndrome Single organ vasculitis Primary central nervous system angiitis
Causes
Differential Diagnosis

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Vasculitis must be differentiated from cardiovascular syphilis, which presents as aortitis and aortic aneurysm.

↑ Pugh PJ, Grech ED (2002). "Images in clinical medicine. Syphilitic aortitis". N. Engl. J. Med. 346 (9): 676. doi:10.1056/NEJMicm010343. PMID 11870245.
↑ Sapira JD (1981 Apr). ""Quincke, de Musset, Duroziez, and Hill: some aortic regurgitations"". South Med J. 74 (4): 459–67. Check date values in: |date= (help)

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 ==Differential Diagnosis==
+Vasculitis must be differentiated from [[cardiovascular syphilis]], which presents as [[aortitis]] and [[aortic aneurysm]].
+*Overlapping symptoms may include [[back pain]], [[fever]], [[abdominal pain]], [[chest pain]], [[shortness of breath]], [[fatigue]], arm and leg weakness, [[lightheadedness]], [[dizziness]], [[fainting]], and [[headaches]].<ref name="pmid11870245">{{cite journal |vauthors=Pugh PJ, Grech ED |title=Images in clinical medicine. Syphilitic aortitis |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=346 |issue=9 |pages=676 |year=2002 |pmid=11870245 |doi=10.1056/NEJMicm010343 |url=}}</ref><ref name=Aortitis>{{cite journal | author=Sapira JD | title="Quincke, de Musset, Duroziez, and Hill: some aortic regurgitations" | journal=South Med J. | date=1981 Apr | volume=74 | issue=4 | pages=459-67 }}</ref>
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