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Vasculitis - ✔✔Inflammation of vessel walls leading to occlusion, rupture,
or thrombosis
Major vessel size categories - ✔✔Large vessel, medium vessel, small
vessel
General constitutional symptoms - ✔✔Malaise, fever, weight loss,
anorexia
General inflammatory symptoms - ✔✔Fever, arthritis, rash, pericardial
effusion, ↑ESR
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, Pain symptoms in vasculitis - ✔✔Arthralgia, myalgia, digit infarct,
neuropathy
Multisystem involvement reason - ✔✔Vessels supply every organ →
ischemia/necrosis
Elevated creatinine in vasculitis - ✔✔Suggests renal involvement
UA finding in renal vasculitis - ✔✔RBC casts
Most definitive diagnostic test for vasculitis - ✔✔Tissue biopsy
ANCA is associated with - ✔✔Many small-vessel vasculitides
Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) risk factor: age - ✔✔>50 years
GCA gender risk - ✔✔Women 2:1
Disease associated with GCA - ✔✔Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR)
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