Vasculitis is considered one of the most complex disease. He appears almost "out of nothing", and diagnosed very difficult, and it is difficult to be treated. It is also an autoimmune disease called vasculitis or arteritis. It is characterized by pathological lesions of various vessels: veins, arteries, capillaries.
For proper uninterrupted operation of all the organs of the human body needs a blood supply. And any inflammatory processes cause swelling of vascular walls. As a result, the lumen narrowing, if not overlap, blocking the blood flow.
In vasculitis are a number of recognizable common symptoms that it is important not to miss. The disease is accompanied by:
- fever;
- a sharp weight loss;
- chronic fatigue;
- numbness of the extremities;
- pain in the muscles;
- weakness throughout the body.
Also, signs of vasculitis are lesions of the skin ( "krupinchatye" rash (usually on the legs), and purple spots, which can burst and leave open sores), joints, lungs (coughing up blood, shortness of breath, chronic rhinitis, sinusitis), eyes, and kidneys (insufficiency, edema, blood and protein in the urine).
What causes the disease? Unfortunately, the exact causes are not established yet. Primary vasculitis may occur, they say, "on the background of full health." Most often are genetic factors to the disease, and the parents who gave their child "broken" genes may know not to know what is vasculitis, a disease they did not themselves It manifested.
Note! Some types of vasculitis caused by infections, but others may be due to ingestion of certain drugs. However, most forms of the disease - the variety of autoimmune diseases.
With regard to complications, it is fraught with vasculitis aneurysms, and Takayasu's disease (which mostly affects young women) Horton's disease (patients older than 50 years) and Kawasaki disease (it is most common in very young children, under the age of 5 years).
Physicians vasculitis is classified by the type of inflammation of blood vessels and particularly the affected organ. And in this regard has already corrected a comprehensive treatment of the disease.
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