NURS 203 Lecture Notes - Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis, Fibrinoid Necrosis, Polymyalgia Rheumatica
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Concept of vasculitis: vasculitis of small vessels (arterioles, venules, capillaries), muscular arteries, and elastic arteries. All of these vasculitis present with different signs and symptoms (ie like coagulation disorders vs. platelet disorders). Leukocytoclastic vasculitis (hypersensitivity vasculitis); nuclear dust = fibrinoid necrosis and immune complex dz"s; and. So, small vessel vasculitis = palpable purpura (always told in the stem of the question). Muscular artery vasculitis polyarteritis nodosa and wegener granulomatosis. Kawasaki"s dz in children crims coronary artery vasculitis ,rash,infarction,mi, swelling. So, infarction is what you see with a muscular artery vasculitis. Polyarteritis nodosa, wegener granulomatosis, kawasaki"s dz in kids. Takayasu"s young, far eastern lady with absent pulse. Temporal arteritis unilateral headache, aches and pains all over body, loss of vision of same side of headache, hurts when pt chews in temporal area. This is a granulomatous (have multinucleated giant cell) vasculitis of the temporal artery, a type of giant cell arteritides.
