Nodular polyarteritis with uveitis

Polyarteritis nodosa is a rare disease involving multiple systems and multiple organs characterized by necrotizing vasculitis. It mainly involves arterioles and medium-sized arteries, and can also involve capillaries and veins. This disease is also known in the literature as periarteritis or polyangiitis. Nodular polyarteritis was a general term for systemic vasculitis. With the deepening of people's understanding, it has been regarded as a unique clinical type. Nodular arteritis associated with rheumatoid arthritis in the past , Now called rheumatoid vasculitis (rheumatoid vasculitis), and nodular polyarteritis with pulmonary involvement are called Churg-Strauss syndrome.

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