Primary central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis is a rare, frequently misdiagnosed condition that affects the brain and spinal cord and is characterized by a variety of neurologic symptoms at ...

What parts of the body does vasculitis affect? Vasculitis can affect virtually any body part, including the skin, joints, muscles, nerves, eyes, sinuses, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, and ...

Distal involvement with proximal sparing is more consistent with vasculitis, as are closely ... is difficult even with cerebral angiography and brain biopsy. Faced with this reality, many ...

A rheumatologic workup was negative. Brain biopsy showed areas of infarction, but no evidence of vasculitis. Nevertheless, given the high clinical suspicion, he was started on a prednisone taper ...

Physicians presented the case of a patient with hypertensive emergency diagnosed as ANCA-associated vasculitis. The presence of a hypertensive emergency may be a sign of ANCA-associated vasculitis.

"If that happens to the brain, it presents as a stroke ... the case for use of PET-MRI machines in the NHS, so that more vasculitis patients can benefit. He said: "This research answers the ...