The American College of Rheumatology 1990 criteria for the classification of vasculitis:
Introduction Page 1 Arthritis & Rheumatism Official Journal of the American College of …

Summary JAMES F. FRIES, GENE G. HUNDER, DANIEL A. BLOCH, BEAT A. MICHEL,
WILLIAM P. AREND, LEONARD H. CALABRESE, ANTHONY S. FAUCI, RAND1 Y. LEAVITT …

Vasculitis is a disease of antiquity; the first example, that of a syphilitic aortitis, was recorded
in 18 15, long before the description of arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis (1). Some 180 …

Abstract The American College of Rheumatology Subcommittee on Classification of
Vasculitis of the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Criteria Committee developed classification …

Objectives. Advances in diagnostic techniques have led to better distinction between types
of vasculitis, potentially affecting the utility of the 1990 ACR classification criteria for …

Vasculitis is inflammation of a vessel wall. The systemic and a major break was made in the
1990s with the 1990 American College of Rheumatology criteria (ACR 1990 vasculitides …

Background: The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) established criteria to
discriminate among patients with seven types of vasculitis. Although designated as …

We describe the histopathologic criteria for the diagnosis of 7 selected vasculitis syndromes:
polyarteritis nodosa, Churg-Strauss syndrome, Wegener's granulomatosis, hypersensitivity …

The histopathologic classifications are deficient in that they do not provide the clinician with
guidelines for when to suspect a vasculitis syndrome, nor once suspected, how to proceed …

Classification of vasculitis remains unsatisfactory. This is largely because the pathogenetic
mechanisms of this family of related disorders have not been fully understood. Existing …