Takayasu arteritis is an idiopathic granulomatous vasculitis of the aorta and its main
branches and it constitutes one of the more common vasculitides in children. Inflammation …

Takayasu arteritis is a devastating vasculitis of the aorta and its major branches. The clinical
manifestations in paediatric patients are less specific than in adults: in children the disease …

Objectives: To estimate the annual incidence rate of paediatric primary systemic vasculitis
(PSV) in a defined geographical area in southern Sweden. Methods: Potential cases of PSV …

Medium-size-artery vasculitides do occur in childhood and manifest, in the main, as
polyarteritis nodosa (PAN), cutaneous PAN and Kawasaki disease. Of these, PAN is the …

Background: Worldwide, familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common
autoinflammatory disease. It has been suggested that environmental factors affect the …

Henoch–Schönlein purpura (HSP) is the most common systemic vasculitis of childhood.
Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is one of the major complications of HSP. The blood neutrophil …

OBJECTIVE: To retrospectively evaluate the clinical features, angiographic findings, and
outcomes of children with Takayasu arteritis (TA) in Turkey. METHODS: Clinical, laboratory …

Abstract Objectives Henoch–Schönlein purpura (HSP) is the most common vasculitis of
children. The aim of this study is to evaluate the demographic and clinic findings of patients …

Background We aimed to compare the ten different scores (by Kobayashi, Egami, Harada,
Formosa, Sano, Piram et al., Wu et al., Yang et al., Tan et al., and Kanai et al.) to assess their …

OBJECTIVES: To test the hypothesis that alterations in the Mediterranean fever (MEFV)
gene are a susceptibility factor for the development of polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) we …