(Medical Xpress) -- Medical Scientists at Trinity College Dublin in a pan-European collaborative study have discovered genes that contribute to the condition vasculitis, causing the inflammation of ...

Vasculitis literally means inflammation of blood vessels and includes many different conditions. There are various different causes and types of vasculitis, which lead to specific symptoms and ...

New recommendations from the European Union League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) address the use of imaging in large vessel vasculitis (LVV) such as giant cell arteritis (GCA) and Takayasu arteritis (TAK ...

As with other tissues, growth, development and ageing of vessels are associated with adaptations (and maladaptations) that modify their function and vulnerabilities The unique features that define ...

The vasculitides that affect small, medium and large vessels are pathologically different. It is thus possible that different pathogenetic mechanisms are responsible for the distinct conditions.

Cutaneous vasculitis (CV) is a term used for inflammation of the blood vessels in the skin that occurs in up to 70% of patients with lupus erythematosus (LE). The inflammation affects the smaller ...

The most common types of large vessel vasculitis (LVV) are giant cell arteritis (GCA) and Takayasu arteritis (TAK). The main feature of both is chronic inflammation of the arteries. Rapid management ...

Ashton Kutcher's recent revelation about his vasculitis diagnosis is bringing to light to an autoimmune disorder that can cause serious damage to the body. According to the 44-year-old, he's "lucky to ...

Q: This is a long story starting in 2001, but I will only tell the last part. My niece supposedly had a stroke. She then had X-rays that showed she had a small spot of bleeding in her brain. She went ...

It was about 12 years ago.Red spots appeared on my legs.Actually, a week before the symptoms appeared, I had been to Myanmar ...

On Monday, Hollywood lost an iconic filmmaker to a debilitating disease. Harold Ramis, the man behind numerous blockbuster films such as Ghostbusters and Groundhog’s Day, passed away at the age of 69 ...