Angiitis And True Vasculitis?
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animekidPosted
Fri 06 Aug 2010 12:00am
that I found a bit out of ” Whack ” about this question is the term ” True Vasculitis? ”
I’m not joking around when I say in all earnestness, I hope that there is not a condition that mimics the vasculitis condition, as I think that most of this audience who have been diagnosed with a vascular condition, in most instances were not diagnosed quickly…and I would
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Just What Is Central Nervous System Vasculitis?
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animekidPosted
Wed 14 Apr 2010 12:00am
or Central Nervous System Vasculitis . A condition that induces structural changes to the walls of the affected blood vessels, CNS vasculitis may occur as a primary angiitis... out of Greenville, Texas who was suffering from a vascular condition called Central Nervous System Vasculitis, and earlier today I came upon an article from the site Wise Geek
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A New Tag Line For The Vasculitis Foundation
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animekidPosted
Sat 04 Dec 2010 12:00am
This comes from the vasculitis Foundation web site…
The Vasculitis Foundation is the international support organization for patients with vasculitis, a family of rare autoimmune diseases, which strikes people of all ages. There is no known cause
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Comparing the less toxic immunosuppressants for vasculitis.
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Katie C.Posted
Mon 29 Dec 2008 6:04pm
Quick and interesting: The New England Journal of Medicine did a comparison of azathioprine and methotrexate for maintaining the remission status of vasculitides such as Wegener’s. These are the much less caustic drugs used post cyclophosphamide and steroids. The study found the drugs to have surprisingly similar results.
More here
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New Vasculitis Group Announcement
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animekidPosted
Sat 15 May 2010 12:00am
This is a release from a new Vasculitis Foundation chapter out of Raleigh, North Carolina.
” We are the North Carolina/Raleigh Vasculitis Support Group and we have participants from across North Carolina as well as parts of Southern Virginia.
We
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VF Foundation’s Vasculitis Awareness Week!
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animekidPosted
Fri 22 Jan 2010 12:00am
Hey there everyone!
I’ll be talking more about this on tomorrow’s Lew Newmark: My Domestic Life Podcast, but I do want to make mention of the Vasculitis Foundation’s ” Vasculitis Awareness Week 2010″ coming up this April.
The actual date is April 25 – May 1, 2010, and I want us all to do our best to try to take part in this very important week
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Scleroderma associated with ANCA-associated vasculitis
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JanPosted
Wed 09 Mar 2011 3:07am
Scleroderma and ANCA-associated vasculitides (AAV), such as microscopic polyangiitis, are distinct disease entities, but are rarely known to coexist with each other. We have..., but eventually they were found to be ANCA-positive with the associated clinical features of vasculitis. Both were treated with high-dose steroids and cyclophosphamide and remitted without
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