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angiitis

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angiitis [‚an·jē′īd·əs]
(medicine)


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Also called angiitis, vasculitis causes changes in the walls of your blood vessels, such as thickening, weakening, narrowing and scarring.
Wegener's granulomatosis can also cause proliferative or focal necrotizing glomerulonephritis and disseminated angiitis, which can compromise any organ in the body.
Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) was also labeled allergic granulomatosis and angiitis because of the presence, predominantly in extranodal locations, of granulomatous inflammation along with eosinophilic vasculitis.
 
 
 
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