Vasculitis Classification

· By vessel size and anatomic site

· Small vessels:

· Goodpasteur

· Microscopic polyangiitis

· Wegener

· Churg-Strauss

· HSP

· Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis

· Medium-sized:

· PAN

· Kawasaki

· Large vessels:

· Giant-cell arteritis

· Takayasu

· Pathogenesis:

· Immune complex deposition

· Infections

· Drugs

· Pauci-immune

· ANCA-associated

· Wegener

· Microscopic polyangiitis

· Churg-Strauss

· Anti-endothelial cell antibodies

· SLE

· Kawasaki

References:

· Kumar V, Fausto N, Abbas A. Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, Seventh Edition. 7th ed. Saunders; 2004.