Vasculitis is a group of diseases, also known as angiitis, that damage blood vessels by causing inflammation. It can affect any blood vessel anywhere in the body. Vasculitis means inflammation of ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) commonly causes joint pain, swelling, and inflammation. However, some people with RA will develop skin rashes. These can occur due to hives, vasculitis, and many other ...

including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and other forms of inflammation such as vasculitis. Although effective, steroids can have many side effects, especially when taken as a pill and used long term.

Axial spondyloarthritis is certainly a mouthful, but it boils down to chronic, painful arthritis of the spine. A rheumatologist arms you with her best advice for treating this chronic arthritis.

Patients with LVV and IBD present with distinct clinical characteristics, including earlier onset and more severe vascular involvement.

Alaska Native and American Indian adults have a high prevalence of AAV, with distinct clinical characteristics and treatment patterns observed.

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 ...

Disease can be isolated to the eye, but in up to half of affected individuals it occurs in the context of an immune-mediated systemic inflammatory condition, such as rheumatoid arthritis or ...

Current treatments for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis include toxic immunosuppressive agents such as cyclophosphamide ...

Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Scores (BVAS) were used to identify disease manifestations. Key efficacy outcomes included remission at week 26, sustained remission at week 52, relapse rates, the ...