Primary vasculitides

Introduction 406 Large-vessel vasculitis 409 Takayasu's arteritis 410 Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis 412 Polyarteritis nodosa 416 Wegener's granulomatosis 418 Other forms of antineutrophil cystoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitides: microscopic polyangiitis and the Churg–Strauss syndrome 422 Small-vessel vasculitis 426 Kawasaki disease 430 • The vasculitides are a heterogeneous group of relatively uncommon diseases that can arise as primary conditions or secondary to an established disease such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (...