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vasculitis [‚vas·kyə′līd·əs] (medicine) Inflammation of a blood vessel or a lymph vessel. Also known as angiitis. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| She had no new vasculitic manifestations and, as previously, a grade II systolic murmur was noted at the left sternal edge. Physicians should be alert to eosinophilia, vasculitic rash, worsening pulmonary symptoms, cardiac complications, and/or neuropathy presenting in their patients. Meningococcemic syndromes seem to require both epithelial and endothelial invasiveness so that the organism can cross the nasopharyngeal mucosal barrier, enter the bloodstream, and invade other blood vessel walls to produce the characteristic vasculitic organ damage. |
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