Challenging mimickers of primary systemic vasculitis.

Abstract

The need to distinguish true primary systemic vasculitis from its multiple potential mimickers is one of the most challenging diagnostic conundrums in clinical medicine. This article reviews 9 challenging vasculitis mimickers: fibromuscular dysplasia, calciphylaxis, segmental arterial mediolysis, antiphospholipid syndrome, hypereosinophilic syndrome, lymphomatoid granulomatosis, malignant atrophic papulosis, livedoid vasculopathy, and immunoglobulin G4-related disease.

• Authors: Eli M Miloslavsky, John H Stone, Sebastian H Unizony
• Journal: Rheumatic diseases clinics of North America (Rheum Dis Clin North Am) Vol. 41 Issue 1 Pg. 141-60, ix ( 2015) ISSN: 1558-3163 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 25399945 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)

Chemical References

• Immunoglobulin G

Topics

• Antiphospholipid Syndrome (diagnosis)
• Arterial Occlusive Diseases (diagnosis)
• Autoimmune Diseases (diagnosis, immunology)
• Calciphylaxis (diagnosis)
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Fibromuscular Dysplasia (diagnosis)
• Humans
• Hypereosinophilic Syndrome (diagnosis)
• Immunoglobulin G (immunology)
• Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis (diagnosis)
• Malignant Atrophic Papulosis (diagnosis)
• Vascular Diseases (diagnosis)
• Vasculitis (diagnosis)