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 ...

A new Cedars-Sinai study demonstrates how gut bacteria can influence the development of blood vessel inflammation in ...

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

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 ...

An autoimmune attack in which the body responds as if its blood vessels were harmful substances can lead to vasculitis, a type of blood vessel inflammation. A common type of vasculitis is giant ...

Nellie Zygiel of Fairhaven has battled illness much of her life. Diagnosed with a rare disease, her life has been saved ...

Smoking contributes to blood vessel spasms and can magnify the effect of Raynaud's, making a mild case worse, and could result in severe damage to fingers and toes. Lupus vasculitis can cause ...

Urticarial vasculitis (UV) is a small vessel vasculitis ... LR is a rash that results from dilation of capillary blood vessels and stagnation of blood within these vessels causes mottled ...