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Vasculitis
• Means inflammation of the blood vessel wall.
– May affect arteries, veins and capillaries.• What causes the inflammation?
1. Immunologic hypersensitivity reactions:• Type II : complement dependent• Type III: immune complex mediated**• Type IV : cell mediated
2. Direct invasion by micro-organisms
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Etiopathogenesis Immunologic mechanisms
• Immune complexe deposition– Responsible for most cases***– Deposition of immune complex – Activation of complement – Release of C5a– C5a chemotactic for neutrophil– Neutrophils damage endothelium
and vessel wall fibrinoid necrosis.– Endothelial damage thrombosis – Ischemic damage to tissue involved.– Example of IC mediated Vasculitis =
Henoch-Schonlein purpura
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• Type IV hypersensitivity: delayed type of hypersensitivity reaction
– implicated in some types of vasculitis due to presence of granulomas.
– Example: Temporal arteritis• Direct Invasion:
– by all classes of microbial pathogens• Rickettsiae• Meningococcus• Fungus
Etiopathogenesis Immunologic mechanisms
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Laboratory testing in vasculitis
1. Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)
2. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
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Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs)
• Are seen in some types of vasculitis esp small vessel vasculitis
• Are circulating ab reactive with neutrophil cytoplasmic ag = ANCA.
• The ANCAs activate neutrophils– Cause release of enzymes and free
radicals resulting in vessel damage.• ANCA titers correlate with disease activity.• Detected by immunofluorescence
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Two types of ANCAs
1. Cytoplasmic (c-ANCAs): – Ab directed against proteinase 3 in
cytoplasmic granules.– Cytoplasmic staining pattern– Example: Wegener’s granulomatosis.
2. Perinuclear (p-ANCAs): – Ab directed against myeloperoxidase.– Perinuclear pattern of staining – Example: Churg-Strauss syndrome,
PAN.
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Classification of Vasculitis : based on vessel size
1. Large vessel Vasculitis:– Giant cell arteritis *– Takayasu’s arteritis *
2. Medium vessel Vasculitis– Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN)*– Kawasaki’s disease*– Thromboangitis obliterans (TAO)*
3. Small vessel Vasculitis– Hypersensitivity vasculitis
• Henoch Schonlein purpura*– Churg Strauss syndrome– Wegener granulomatosis *
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Clinical manifestations of vasculitis
• Clinical picture depends on the size and extent of the vessel involvement.
• Large vessel Vasculitis:1. Presents with loss of pulse or 2. Stroke
• Medium vessel Vasculitis1. Presents with infarction or aneurysm
• Small vessel Vasculitis1. Presents with Palpable purpura*
• General features:– Fever, weight loss, malaise, myalgias
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Patient Profile # 1
• Old female patient presents with•Headache in the temporal region•Pain in the jaw while chewing•Muscle aches and pains•Develops problems with vision.
• On examination:– Has nodular and palpable temporal artery.
• Labs: – elevated ESR
• Biopsy: ( temporal artery)– granulomatous inflammation with giant cells
• Diagnosis:– Giant cell (temporal) arteritis
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Large vessel vasculitis Giant cell (temporal) arteritis
• Is the most common vasculitis**.• Occurs in women > 50 years (Female >
male)• Vessel involvement::
– Typically involves temporal artery and extra-cranial branches of external carotid.
– Involvement of ophthalmic branch of external carotid blindness.
• Etiopathogenesis:– Type IV hypersensitivity mediated
reaction causing granulomatous inflammation.
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Giant cell arteritis: Pathology
• Affected vessel are cordlike and show nodular thickening.
• Microscopy:– Focal Granulomatous inflammation
of temporal artery – Fragmented internal elastic lamina– Giant cells.
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Temporal (giant cell) arteritis
Giant cell
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Giant cell (temporal) arteritis• Clinical features:
– Fever, fatigue, weight loss– Temporal headache* (MC symptom),
facial pain.– Painful, palpably enlarged and tender
temporal artery*– Generalized muscular aching and
stiffness (shoulders and hip)– Temporary / permanent blindness*
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Giant cell (temporal) arteritis
• Investigations:– ESR: screening test of choice ; markedly
elevated.– Temporal artery biopsy : definitive
diagnosis (positive in only 60% cases)• Treatment:
– Corticosteroids (to prevent blindness)
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Patient profile # 2 • Middle aged Asian woman presents with:
– Visual disturbances– Marked decrease in blood pressure in
upper extremity and – Absent radial, ulnar and carotid pulses.
• Angiography shows:– Marked narrowing of aortic arch vessels
• Biopsy:– Granulamatous inflammation with giant
cells• Diagnosis:
– Takayasu’s arteritis (pulseless disease)
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Takayasu’s arteritis (pulseless disease)
• Is an inflammatory disease of vessels affecting
– the aorta and its major branches• Seen in Asian women <50 years old.• Vessel involvement:
– Typically involves the aorta* and the aortic arch vessles* (carotids, subclavian).
– Can also involve: pulmonary, renal, coronary
• Etiopathogenesis:– Type IV hypersensitivity reaction causing
granulomatous inflammation (granulomatous vasculitis)
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Takayasu’s arteritis
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Takayasu’s arteritis (pulseless disease)
• Pathology:– Thickening of vessels ( aorta &
branches) with narrow ( stenosis) lumen
– decreased blood flow• Microscopic
– Similar to/indistinguishable from Giant Cell Arteritis
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• Clinical:– Dizziness,syncope.– Absent upper extremity pulse (pulseless
disease)**– Blood pressure discrepancy* between
extremitis : low in upper and higher in lower
– Visual disturbances• Diagnosis:
– angiography
Takayasu’s arteritis (pulseless disease)
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Patient profile # 3• Young male IV drug abuser with history of
Hepatitis (HBV) presents with– Hypertension, abdominal pain, melena,
muscle aches and pains and skin nodulations.
• Biopsy of skin nodules:– Segmental transmural inflammation of
blood vessels with fibrinoid necrosis.• Labs:
– HBsAg +ve– pANCA +ve
• Diagnosis:– Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN)
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Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN)• A systemic disease.• Vessel involvement:
– Affects medium sized & small muscular arteries*.
– Typically involves vessels of • Kidney, heart, liver, GIT and skin• Spares the lung**
• Etiology:– Mediated by type III hypersensitivity ( ag-ab
complex deposition). • Associations:
– strong association with HBV antigenemia – hypersensitivity to drugs (IV amphetamines).
• Pathogenesis:• immunecomplex deposition (e.g. HBsAg /
anti- HBsAg)
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IMMUNECOMPLEX DEPOSITION
Small to medium sized muscular arteries
Activation of complement system
Acute inflammation
Damage to vessel wall• neutrophil infiltration• fibrinoid necrosis
Thrombosis
Infarction in involved organs
Aneurysms
Nodules
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Neutrophils
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• Pathology:– Transmural inflammation (involving all
layers).•Lesion in the vessel wall may
– involve entire circumference or part of it
– Fibrinoid necrosis• Consequences:
– development of •Thrombosis infarction•Weakening of vessel wall Aneurysms (kidney, heart and GI tract)
PAN
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PAN: Clinical features• More common in young to middle aged men• Signs and symptoms: due to ischemic damage.• Target organs:
– Kidneys : Vasculitis/infarction hypertension , hematuria, albuminuria.
– GI tract: Bowel infarction abdominal pain, melena.
– Skin: Ischemic ulcers and nodules.– Coronary arteries: aneurysms, MI
• Systemic manifestation: fever, malaise and weight loss.
• Cause of death: Renal failure MC COD
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• Laboratory findings:– HbsAg positive in 30% of cases– Hematuria with RBC cast
• Diagnosis: – arteriography or biopsy of palpable
nodulations in the skin or organ involved .
• Treatment:– Untreated cases: almost fatal– Good response to immunosuppressive
therapy.
PAN
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Churg-Strauss Syndrome (Allergic granulomatous angitis)
• Is a systemic vasculitis that occurs in persons with asthma*.
• A variant of PAN.• Involves small* & medium vessels of
– upper/lower respiratory tract*– heart, spleen, peripheral nerves, skin ,
kidney.• Pathology:
– Inflammation of vessel wall (eosinophils)– Fibrinoid necrosis– Thrombosis and infarction
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Churg-Strauss Syndrome (Allergic granulomatous angitis)
• Features very similar to PAN but patients with CSS have:– History of atopy– Bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis and – peripheral blood eosinophilia.
• Microscopy: – Similar to PAN
• Labs: – peripheral eosinophilia , high serum IgE, – p-ANCA*
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Patient profile # 4• A 4 year old Japanese child presents with
– Fever, redness of eyes and oral cavity– Swollen hands and feet– Rash over the trunk and extremities– Peeling of skin and – Cervical lymphadenopathy.
• Labs:– ECG changes consistent with myocardial
ischemia• Diagnosis:
– Kawasaki Disease (mucocutaneous lymphnode syndrome)
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Kawasaki’s disease
• Is also known as mucocutaneous lymphnode syndrome.
– Is an acute self limited febrile illness of infants and children (< 5 yrs).
• Is endemic in Japan , Hawaii– One of the manifestations is vasculitis
(coronary artery).• In other words:
– KD is a childhood vasculitis that mainly targets coronary arteries.
• Coronary artery involvement: – can lead to coronary thrombosis or
aneurysm formation and its rupture.
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Coronary artery aneurysms
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Clinical features : Kawasaki’s disease
Oral Erythema
Palmer Erythema Conjunctivitis
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Rash Desquamation
Edema: feet and arms
Clinical features : Kawasaki’s disease
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• Clinical findings:– High fever– Erythematous rash of trunk and extremities
with desquamation of skin.– Mucosal inflammation : cracked lips, oral
erythema– Erythema, swelling of hands and feet.– Localized lymphadenopathy (cervical
adenopathy)– MCC of an acute MI in children******
• Lab:– Neutrophilic leukocytosis– Thrombocytosis : characteristic finding– High ESR– abnormal ECG (e.g. acute MI)*****
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Patient profile # 5• A young smoker male patient from Israel
presents with C/O– Pain in the foot
•Which is severe and present even at rest• On examination:
– Presence of ulcers and blackish areas over the fingers and toes.
– Some missing digits.• Biopsy from lower limb vessel:
– Acute inflammation of vessel wall with Obliteration of vessel lumen by a thrombus.
• Diagnosis: Thromboangitis Obliterans (Buerger’s Disease)
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Buerger’s Disease
• Also known as Thromboangitis Obliterans.• Is a peripheral vascular disease of
smokers.• Pathology:
– Earliest change: Acute inflammation involving the small to medium sized arteries in the extremities (tibial, popliteal & radial arteries).
– Inflammation of vessel thrombus formation obliterates lumen ischemia gangrene of extremity.
– Inflammation also extends to adjacent veins and nerves.
• Involvement of entire neurovascular compartment.
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Buerger’s Disease
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Buerger’s Disease• Clinical findings:
– Young-middle age, male, heavy smoker*•Israel*, Japan, India.
– Symptoms start between 25 to 40 years– Early manifestation:
•Intermittent Claudication in feet or hands
–Cramping pain in muscles after exercise, relieved by rest
– Late manifestation:•Painful ulcerations of digits•Gangrene of the digits often requiring amputation.
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• Diagnosis: – biopsy
• Rx: – early stages of vasculitis frequently
cease on discontinuation of smoking.
Buerger’s Disease
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Small vessel vasculitis
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Small vessel vasculitis Hypersensitivity (leukocytoclastic)
vasculitis
• Refers to a group of immune complex mediated vasculitides.
• Characterized by:– Acute inflammation of small blood
vessels– Manifesting as palpable purpura***.
• Organs involved:– Usually skin ( other organs less
commonly affected).
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Hypersensitivity (leukocytoclastic) vasculitis
• May be precipitated by – Exogenous antigens
•Drugs–E.g. aspirin/penicillin/thiazide diuretics
•Infectious organisms–E.g. strep/staph infections,TB,viral diseases
•Foods– Chronic diseases
•E.g. SLE, RA etc.
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Hypersensitivity (leukocytoclastic) vasculitis
• Pathology:– acute inflammation of small blood
vessels (arterioles, capillaries, venules)
– Neutrophilic infiltrate in vessel wall.– Leukocytoclastic refers to nuclear
debris from disintegrating neutrophils•The neutrophils undergo karyorrhexis.
– Erythrocyte extravasation
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Hypersensitivity (leukocytoclastic) vasculitis
• C/F:– The disease typically presents as
palpable purpura* involving the skin principally of lower extremities.
– May also involve other organs•Lungs hemoptysis•GIT abdominal pain•Kidneys hematuria and •Musculoskeletal system arthralgia •brain, heart
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• Diagnosis: – Skin biopsy is often diagnostic.
• Treatment: – removal of offending agent
Hypersensitivity (leukocytoclastic) vasculitis
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Patient profile # 6
• A 14 year old child with history of URT infection develops:– Polyarthritis– Colicky abdominal pain– Hematuria with RBC casts– Palpable purpura localized to lower limbs
and buttocks.• Lab:
– Neutrophilic leukocytosis– Deposition of IgA-C3 immune complex : in
skin and renal lesions
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Henoch Schonlein purpura (HSP)
• A variant of hypersensitivity vasculitis.• Seen in children** (MC vasculitis in
children) , rare in adults.• Etiopathogenesis:
– Usually occurs following an upper respiratory infection*.
– Caused by deposition of IgA-C3 immune complexes in vessel wall.
• Vessels involved: – Arterioles, capillaries and venules of
•Skin, GIT,Kidney,musculoskeletal system.
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Henoch Schonlein purpura (HSP)• Clinically characterized by:
– Palpable purpura over extensor aspects of arms and legs.•commonly limited to lower extremities/ buttocks.
– Involvement of •GIT colicky abdominal pain, melena•Musculoskeletal system Arthralgia (non migratory), and myalgias
•Kidneys hematuria due to focal proliferative GN.
•Lung rare
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Henoch Schonlein purpura (HSP)
• Lab:– Neutrophilic leukocytosis– Deposition of IgA-C3 immune
complexes : in skin and renal lesions
• Rx: steroids
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Wegener Granulomatosis (WG)• Is characterized by:
1. Necrotizing granulomatous inflammation of URT and LRT and
2. Granulomatous vasculitis of the same areas plus kidneys.
• Therefore patients have:1. Lesions of the nose, sinuses and
lungs* (upper & lower respiratory tract) and
2. Kidney*– Highly associated with c-ANCA**
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Wegener Granulomatosis
• Pathology: two different types of lesions1. Granulomatous Vasculitis
– involving small vessels of URT and LRT and kidneys.
2. Necrotizing granulomatous lesions– in the above sites.– Granuloma formation with giant
cells–
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Wegener Granulomatosis
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Clinical features• Persons most commonly affected by WG are
– middle aged 40-50 yrs (Peak incidence)– Male> females
• Respiratory tract signs and symptoms dominate the clinical picture:– Upper respiratory tract (nasopharynx, sinuses,
trachea) •Chronic Sinusitis, ulcers of nasopharyngeal
mucosa.•Saddle nose deformity* : Nasal cartilage
destroyed– Lower respiratory tract
•Recurrent pneumonia with •Nodular lesions which undergo cavitation
• Kidney: Crescentric glomerulonephritis can cause renal failure.
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• Lab: – c-ANCA* present in 90% of patients with
active disease (good marker of disease activity)•Specific for WG
• Chest radiograph: – bilateral nodular infiltrates or cavitary
lesions. • Diagnosis:
– biopsy• Treatment:
– Cyclophosphamide•Danger of hemorrhagic cystitis and Transitional cell carcinoma
– Steroids– Without treatment 80% die within 1 year
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Infectious vasculitis• Fungal vasculitis: vessel invading fungi
– Mucor, Aspergillus ,Candida. • Rocky Mountain spotted fever
– Rickettsia rickettsiae• Disseminated meningococcemia:
– Small vessel vasculitis petechial hemorrhages
• Infective endocarditis*– Roth’s spots in retina– Janeway’s lesions on hands (painless)– Osler’s nodes on hands (painful)– Glumerulonephritis