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microscopic polyangiitis

hypersensitivity vasculitis, microscopic polyarteritis

 
Microscopic polyangiitis is a pauci-immune, necrotizing, small-vessel vasculitis without evidence of granulomatous inflammation involving small-sized muscular arteries.

Synopsis

-  perinuclear pattern with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (p-ANCA +) (pANCA-associated microscopic polyangiitis)
-  disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)with marked systemic bleeding (#14518675#)

-  massive myocardial necrosis

-  pulmonary lesions

-  peripheral neuropathy
-  crescentic glomerulonephritis
-  glomerulonephritis associated with small vessel vasculitis
-  limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis

Associations

-  cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis
-  late emergence of generalised Wegener's granulomatosis

References

-  Jennette JC, Thomas DB, Falk RJ. Microscopic polyangiitis (microscopic polyarteritis). Semin Diagn Pathol. 2001 Feb;18(1):3-13. PMID: #11296991#



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