The Siberian Scientific Medical Journal
 
 
№ 5 / 2016 / 43-52

Kidney damage in primary large- and medium-vessel vasculitis

Author Affiliations

Abstract

Vasculitides of large- and medium-vessel include giant-cell arteritis and Takayasu’s arteritis, which typically affect the aorta and its main branches, Kawasaki’s disease and polyarteritis nodosa, which involve medium-sized arteries. Chronic periaortitis affecting the abdominal aorta and the periaortic tissue could be included in this group. Unlike small-vessel vasculitides, vasculitides of large- and medium-vessel do not cause glomerulonephritis, but can involve the renal artery and its branches, causing renal artery stenosis, renal ischaemia/infarction, microaneurysms and haemorrhage. This review focuses on renal abnormalities in these diseases.

Key words

giant-cell arteritis, IgG4, retroperitoneal fibrosis, aortitis, periaortitis, polyarteritis nodosa, Takayasu arteritis
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About Authors (Correspondence):

Sidorova L.D. – academician of RAS, professor of the chair of internal medicine

Tov N.L. – doctor of medical sciences, professor, head of the chair of internal medicine, e-mail: nikita.tov@gmail.com

Received: 08/11/2016