11.10: Vasculitis Flashcards

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Types of immune mediated inflammation leading to vasculitis?

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  1. Immune complex associated
  2. ANCA: antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody
  3. Anti endothelial cell antibodies: direct vasc. attack
  4. Cell mediated immunity
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Broad categories that can cause vasculitis?

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  1. Immune mediated

2. Invasion by infectious pathogens

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Does vasculitis occur mainly in venous or arterial system?

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Arterial

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Layers of vessels from inside to out?

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  1. Intima
  2. Internal elastic lamina
  3. Media
  4. Adventitia
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How does vasculitis move in small vessels?

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From inside out

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How does vasculitis move in large vessels?

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Vaso vasorum in the adventitia can allows immune cells and pathogens to infiltrate
**Inside out in medium vessels as well

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Is vasculitis and inside out or outside in process? Which type of cells are responsible?

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  • Inside to outside: in small and medium vessels where most occurs
  • Normally mediated by neutrophils
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How are neutrophils involved?

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  • Neut is traveling in blood then adheres to vessel wall

- Something causes degranulation leading to inflammation

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Pathway in large vessels?

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  • Naive T Cells activate DCs in adventitia
  • Activation cause ROS = damage of media
  • Non scarring arteritis: window of opportunity?
  • Scarring and fibrosis break down elastic lamina and thicken Intima
  • Fibrosis = stenosis / ischemia
  • Breakdown of elastic lamina = aneurysm
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Difference between instigating cells in small and large vessels?

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Small: Neutrophils
Large: Macrophages

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Pathway in small vessel vasculitis?

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  • Inflammatory state is first step
  • Next several things could happen:
    a. IC attaches and irritates endothelium
    b. Anti neutrophil Ig could active neut
    c. Ig directly bind endothelium leading to neut attack
  • Neutrophils then degranulate causing inflammation
  • Small vessel comes apart leaking blood
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What happens to endothelial cell when activated?

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  • Procoagulant: express adhesion factors
  • Proinflammatory
  • Leads to turbulent flow
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What are features of all vasculitides?

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  1. Fever
  2. Fatigue
  3. Myalgia
  4. Weight loss
  5. Organ dysfunction
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What is CRP?

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  • Biomarker for inflammation

- Produced by liver

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What occurs when levels of fibrinogen rise?

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  • Sedimentation rate goes up
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What is leukocytoclasis?

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  • Neutrophils are exploding like kamikazes leaving nuclear debris in wake
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Characteristics of small vessel vasculitis?

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  1. Leukocytoclasis
  2. Fibrinoid necrosis
  3. Possible Immune complex deposition
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What is fibrinoid necrosis?

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  • Dead neutrophils with fibrin deposition
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Clinical signs of small vessel vasculitis?

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  1. Palpable purpura: bumpy and does not blanch
  2. Bleeding in small vessels of lungs
  3. Necrotizing glomerulonephritis
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What is special about purpura in vasculitis?

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  • It is bumpy from blood vessel inflammation causing them to pop up
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Features of medium vessel vasculitis?

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  • Muscular layer offers great protection from obliteration
    1. Fibrinoid necrosis with pleomorphic infiltrate
    2. Fibrinoid necrosis is focal and segmental: not entire circumference, skip along vessel
    3. Aneurysms from destruction of media
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Clinical findings in medium cell vasculitis?

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  1. Skin nodules in hands
  2. Livedo: Ringlike rash
  3. Ulcers instead of palpable purpura
  4. Abdominal pain
  5. Nerve infarcts: sensory and motor loss
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What causes large vessel vasculitis?

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  • Usually not neutrophilic like small and medium
  • Can be immune complex mediated
  • Usually innate cells such as macs and T cells
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Characteristics of large vessel vasculitis?

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  • Innate cell mediated
  • Outside in
  • Granulomas starting in adventitia usually present
  • Intima becomes hyperplastic leading to stenosis / occlusion
  • Neovascularization occurs to get some blood through
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When does fibrinoid necrosis occur?

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  • Small and medium vasculitis, note large
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Clinical findings in large vessel vasculitis?

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  1. Loss of vision or 2x vision
  2. Claudication: cramps from low flow
  3. Chest pain
  4. Headaches and stroke symptoms
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Diagnostic considerations in vasculitis?

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  1. Vessel size based on presentation
  2. ANCA association
  3. Granulomas
  4. Possible disease association
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Study performed with large vessel involvement?

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  • Angiography or MRA
  • ESR
  • CRP
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Study performed with small vessel involvement?

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  • CT Chest
  • Lung / kidney biopsy
  • Skin biopsy
  • Urinalysis
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What are two types of ANCA? How to tell which kind?

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  1. C-ANCA, “Cytoplasmic:” Elisa test positive for PR3

2. P-ANCA “Perinuclear:” Elisa test positive for MPO

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What is Elisa test positive for PR3 indicative of?

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C-ANCA

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What is Elisa test positive for MPO indicative of?

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P-ANCA

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Pathogenesis of ANCA?

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  • Infection creating proinflammatory state
  • Antibodies can be developed for neut granules
  • Antibodies will later stimulate neut w/o infection
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What can be used to treat ANCA?

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Rituxan

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Why does knowing if there are granulomas help?

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There are small amount of vasculitis that form them

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What are some non microbial antigens that can cause vasculitis?

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  1. Drugs
  2. Allergens
  3. Tumor antigens
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What can vasculitis be secondary to?

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  1. HIV
  2. Lupus
    3 Rheumatoid arthritis
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What is GCA?

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“Giant Cell Arteritis”

  • > 50 yo, w/ 2/3 females
  • More common in scandinavians: whites
  • Less common in blacks, hispanics, asians
  • Large / medium vessels
  • Tender and tortuous temporal artery
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Where does GCA usually occur?

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  • Usually in external carotid and temporal: tender and tortuous
  • Can occur in ophthalmic c. off internal carotid
  • Does NOT involve cerebral arteries
  • Aorta
40
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Pathologic features of GCA?

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  1. Patchy and segmental
  2. Granulomatous
  3. Fragmented IEL: Aneurysm
  4. Can be chronic
41
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Clinical features of GCA?

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  1. Headaches
  2. Polymyalgia Rheumatic: stiff in morning
  3. Scalp tenderness
  4. TA pulse abnormality
  5. Ocular disturbance
  6. Claudication in extremities
  7. Cardiac or neurologic symptoms
42
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Investigations for GCA?

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  1. Temporal artery biopsy
  2. Test acute phase proteins
  3. Vessel imaging for claudication
43
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Treatment for GCA?

A

Corticosteroids with SLOW taper

44
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Another name for pulseless disease?

A

Takayasu’s ateritis

45
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Typical ptn. with pulseless disease?

A

Japanese female

46
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Vessel normally involved in Takayasu’s arteritis?

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  • Aorta, arch, and branches
  • Pulmonary artery
  • Renal artery
  • Cerebral arteries with stroke
  • **Likes to stenose in branching areas
47
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Pathologic findings in Takayasu’s?

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  • Very similar to GCA
  • Intense transmural scarring
  • Hyperplastic intima with neovascularization
  • Luminal narrowing
48
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3 phases of Takayasu’s?

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  1. Inflammatory period: ever, pain etc
  2. Vessel inflammation with pain and tenderness
  3. Fibrotic state with stenosis and bruits
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Clinical features of Takayasu’s?

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  1. Abnormal pulses
  2. Unequal blood pressure
  3. Bruits
  4. Claudication
  5. Ocular disturbance
  6. Pulmonary / renal htn
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Key diagnostic test in Takayasu’s?

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  • Imaging of aorta and all vessels
51
Q

What is most common cause of heart disease in kids?

A

Kawasaki’s

52
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Pathologic characteristics of Kawasaki’s?

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  1. Fibrinoid necrosis
  2. IEL destruction
  3. NO granulomas
  4. Aneurysm or acute thrombosis
53
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When does kawasaki’s need to be treated?

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2 weeks after first fever

54
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Clinical features of Kawasaki’s disease?

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  1. Fever
  2. Polymorphous rash
  3. Bilateral conjunctival w/o exudate
  4. Strawberry mouth and tongue
  5. Edema and erythema in extremities
  6. Swollen glands
  7. Coronary aneurysm
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Treatment of Kawasaki’s disease?

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  • High dose aspirin

- IVIG: within first ten days of fever

56
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What is PAN?

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“Polyarteritis Nodosa”

  • Small and medium muscular arteries
  • Can be caused by hep B / C
57
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What arteries does PAN prefer?

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  1. Renal
  2. Coronary
  3. Hepatic
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Pathologic features of PAN?

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  • Focal
  • Segmental
  • Transmural
  • Fibrinoid necrosis
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Clinical features of PAN?

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  • Organ infarct
  • Abdominal pain
  • Arthralgia
  • Neuropathy: asymmetrically additive
  • LUNGS ARE SPARED
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What is characteristic of PAN neuropathy?

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Asymmetrically additive: “Mononeuritis multiplex”

  • Won’t be entire hand or foot as in diabetes
  • Will just be individual parts
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What is Mononeuritis multiplex?

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  • Asymmetrically additive neuropathy seen in PAN
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Is PAN ANCA positive or negative?

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Negative

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Tests for PAN?

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  • ANCA negative

- Angiogram with smooth stenosis followed by aneurysm

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How to treat PAN?

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  • Corticosteroids

- Plasma exchange if from Hep B

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What are the 3 ANCA associated vasculitis?

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  1. GPA: “Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis”
  2. MPA: “Microscopic polyangiitis”
  3. CS: Churg Strauss
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Symptoms of ANCAs?

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  • Palpable purpura
  • Renal / pulmonary syndrome
  • Impact small vessels
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What size vessels do ANCAs impact?

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  • Small and some medium

- Kidneys / lungs

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Pathologic features of ANCAs?

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  • **All are Pauci immune
    1. GPA:
  • Leukocytoclastic fibrinoid necrosis
  • Granulomas in upper resp tract
    2. MPA: “Microscopic polyangiitis
  • Leukocytoclastic fibrinoid necrosis
  • NO granulomas
    3. CS: Churg Strauss
  • Leukocytoclastic fibrinoid necrosis
  • Granulomas
  • Peripheral and tissue eosinophelia
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Which ANCA shows no granuloma?

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MPA

70
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Which ANCA shows peripheral and tissue eosinophilia?

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CS

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What does pauci immune mean?

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  • Not much immune deposition

- Immunofluorescence is not positive

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Clinical features of GPA?

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  • Destruction of upper airway: SADDLE NOSE
  • Gingival hyperplasia
  • Subepiglottic stenosis
  • Eye issues
  • Necrotic pulmonary cavities
  • NCGN: Necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis
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Clinical features of MPA?

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  • Alveolar

- NCGN

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Clinical features of CS?

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  • Nasal polyps
  • Asthma / allergy
  • NCGN
  • Can progress to cardiomyopathy from eosinophilic cardia infiltrate
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Test indicating GPA?

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  • C ANCA and PR3 positive
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What is C ANCA and PR3 positive indicative of?

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GPA

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Test indicating MPA?

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  • P ANCA and MPO positive
78
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What does P ANCA and MPO positive indicate?

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MPA

- Lesser likelihood of CS

79
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What will ANCAs show on urine studies?

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  • Proteinuria
  • RBCs
  • Casts
80
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What test is expected positive in Immune complex mediated vasculitis?

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  • Immunofluorescence
81
Q

What is HSP?

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“Henoch Schonlein Purpura”

  • Usually in children: adults too
  • More common in winter
  • 50% of time preceded by URI
  • Small vessels: IC mediated
82
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What are the immune complex mediated diseases?

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  1. SLE vasculitis
  2. HSP
  3. Cryoglobulin vasculitis
  4. Goodpasture disease
    * *All occur in small vessels
83
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What is IgA and C3 on immunofluorescence characteristic of?

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HSP

84
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How do you test for HSP?

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  1. IgA and C3 on neutrophils

2. H and E shows neutrophils

85
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HSP clinical features?

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  1. Palpable purpura
  2. Arthritis
  3. Abdominal pain
  4. Renal impairment
86
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What are the following characteristic of?

  1. Palpable purpura
  2. Arthritis
  3. Abdominal pain
  4. Renal impairment
A

HSP

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HSP treatment?

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  • Hydration

- NSAIDs if no renal involvement

88
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What is thromboangiitis obliterans?

A
  • Seen in smokers
89
Q

What are corkscrew collaterals indicative of?

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Thromboangiitis obliterans

90
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Treatment for thromboangiitis obliterans?

A

STOP SMOKING YOU IDIOT

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Vasculitis treatment?

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  1. Steroids
  2. Chemo
  3. Rituximab in B cell
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When would you see granulomas at IEL?

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GCA

93
Q

When do you see leukocytoclastic vasculitis in glomerular capillaries?

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ANCA associated / small vessel

94
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When do you see extensive hyperplastic intima with neovascularization?

A

Takayasu’s

95
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When do you see focal vasculitis with transmural fibrinoid necrosis?

A

PAN

96
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What disease can cause aortic dissection?

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GCA