Polyarteritis Nodosa
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Polyarteritis nodosa
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What is Polyarteritis Nodosa?
Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a multisystem disease that affects small to medium sized blood vessels. Typically it affects the renal, intestinal, muscular and cardiac circulations.
What is polyarteritis nodosa?
Polyarteritis nodosa is a rare autoimmune disease featuring spontaneous inflammation of the arteries (arteritis, a form of blood vessel inflammation or "vasculitis").
Polyarteritis nodosa is a disease of unknown cause that affects arteries, the blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to organs and tissues. It occurs when certain immune cells attack the affected arteries.
Polyarteritis nodosa is a rare, but potentially life threatening, inflammation of the blood vessels (vasculitis) that damages the walls of the body's small- and medium-sized arteries.
Symptoms of POLYARTERITIS NODOSA
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Disseminated Periarteritis
Infectious Periarteritis
Necrotizing Angitis
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Polyarteritis nodosa (POL-e-ar-ter-I-tis no-DO-suh) can affect many parts of the body. This disorder often affects the kidneys, the digestive tract, the nerves, and the skin.
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Polyarteritis nodosa is an autoimmune disease. Your immune system is your bodys defense system. It fights diseases and infections. An autoimmune disease is a condition in which your body's immune system mistakenly attacks your own body.
polyarteritis nodosa group - an inflammatory disease of the arteries.
Wegener vasculitis - A progressive disease that leads to widespread inflammation of all of the organs in the body.
Polyarteritis nodosa. This is an extremely serious, systemic (affecting systems throughout the body) form of vasculitis. Small and medium arteries are involved, and the inflammation is so severe that the walls of the arteries may be destroyed.
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Common peroneal nerve dysfunction is damage to the peroneal nerve leading to loss of movement or sensation in the foot and leg.
Polyarteritis nodosa is a vascular disease of unknown cause which typically strikes adults.
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Fever, weight loss, abdominal pain, hypertension, edema
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Polyarteritis nodosa - Polyarteritis nodosa causes inflammation of medium to small arteries. In the skin, the inflammation causes the blood vessels to become thickened so that they can be felt. Some people develop skin ulcers (open sores).
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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 ...
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Port wine stain (see nevus flammeus)
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Blood vessel diseases such as polyarteritis nodosa
Connective tissue diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or systemic lupus erythematosus
Diabetes mellitus
Connective tissue disease is the most common cause of mononeuritis multiplex in children.
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Bacterial endocarditis
Syphilis
Age: 60 or older
History of heart attack
Obesity
Family members with aneurysms, particularly male children of an effected mother
Infectious aortitis ...
Immune disorders affecting the aorta include Takayasu arteritis, giant cell arteritis, polyarteritis nodosa, Behcet disease, Cogan syndrome, sarcoidosis, spondyloarthropathy, serum sickness, cryoglobulinemia, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), ...
Diseases of the connective tissue and blood vessels (such as polyarteritis nodosa)
Infections that affect the muscles (such as trichinosis or toxoplasmosis)
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Other causes include immune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, an inflammatory disease of the arteries called polyarteritis nodosa, Henoch-Schonlein purpura and rare inherited genetic causes.
Necrotizing vasculitis may occur in rheumatoid arthritis and is commonly seen with systemic lupus erythematosus, polyarteritis nodosa, and scleroderma.
It is very rare in children.
For example, nephrotic syndrome is a possible complication of diabetes, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis, polyarteritis nodosa, Henoch-Schönlein purpura, various infections, some cancers and amyloidosis.
What is collagen disease? Meaning of collagen disease medical term. What does collagen ... Collagen diseases include polyarteritis nodosa, systemic lupus ...
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Orchitis: Inflammation of the testis (male sex organ). There are many causes of inflammation of the testis including infections (such as mumps), diseases (such as polyarteritis nodosa), or injury. Also called orchiditis.
The prognosis varies with the disease form. For example, hypersensitivity vasculitis is usually benign and limited to the skin, whereas the more extensive polyarteritis nodosa can be rapidly fatal.
Examples of angiitis include Kawasaki disease, Behcet's disease, polyarteritis nodosa, and Wegener's granulomatosis.
A nonsyphilitic interstitial keratitis characterised by an abrupt onset with vertigo and tinnitus followed by deafness; about 50% of patients have an associated systemic disease, most commonly polyarteritis nodosa.
Synonyms: Cogan's syndrome.
ulcer is usually associated with a connective tissue disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Sjögren syndrome, Mooren ulcer, or a systemic vasculitic disorder (eg, systemic lupus erythematosus [SLE], Wegener granulomatosis, polyarteritis nodosa).
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 See also: Polyarteritis, Arteritis, Symptom, Rheum, Arthritis
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