What is Microscopic polyangiitis?
Microscopic polyangiitis is characterized by pauci-immune, necrotizing, small-vessel vasculitis without clinical or pathological evidence of necrotizing granulomatous inflammation.
Microscopic Polyangiitis
Microscopic polyangiitis (POL-e-an-jee-I-tis) affects small blood vessels, particularly those in the kidneys and lungs. The disease mainly occurs in middle-aged people; it affects men slightly more often than women.
Alternative agents in the treatment of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener’s) and microscopic polyangiitis
Classification of and approach to the vasculitides in adults ...
Polyarteritis nodosa - Churg-Strauss syndrome - Kawasaki disease - Hypersensitivity vasculitis - Goodpasture's syndrome - Wegener's granulomatosis - Arteritis (Takayasu's arteritis, Temporal arteritis) - Microscopic polyangiitis - Systemic lupus ...
Microscopic Polyangiitis ... joint pain
Minicore myopathy with external ophthalmoplegia ... loose joints
Mixed connective tissue disease ... Arthritis, joint pain, joint problems
Moller-Barlow disease ... joint pain
Morgellons Disease ... joint pain ...
 See also: Angiitis, Granuloma, Vasculitis, Myalgia, Rheum
  
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