Vasculitis: symptoms, pictures and treatment

When inflammation of the vessel wall develops a disease called vasculitis. The lesion is exposed to various blood vessels and capillaries, and depending on the kind of the vessel, vasculitis can be divided into several types:

• Arteritis. The vasculitis affects walls of the arteries;
• Arteriola. In this case, the inflamed small arteries that are designated as arterioles;
• Capillarity. The inflammatory process affects the smallest vessels – capillaries;
• Phlebitis. When the disease is inflammation affects the wall of the vein.

It should also be noted and the type of vasculitis, which is beyond the accepted scope of the classification. It is a systemic disease in which the inflammatory process involves several types of blood vessels.

Causes of vasculitis

Before you start talking about the causes of the disease it is necessary to distinguish between primary vasculitis, a disease strictly of the Autonomous type, which occurs without external influence, and vasculitis secondary, which is necessary for the occurrence of other complications of the disease.

Causes, etymology, primary vasculitis, to date, unknown. But the second type, secondary vasculitis can be caused by the following diseases:

• Bacterial or viral infections that occur with a complication;
• The genetic predisposition of the patient to diseases of the circulatory system in General;
• The individual response that demonstrates the patient's body in response to vaccination;
• Residual reactions to the main poisons of biological kinds, which are part of drugs in the treatment of malignant tumors;
• Influence the organism of some serums and chemical compounds present in medicines;
• Severe overheating or cooling of the body;
• Various traumas.

Each of these factors can cause the beginning of the process of change in the antigenic structure of tissues, which is the basis of the vessels. The body's response to changes in the structure will be to develop antibodies that will attack blood vessels, mistaking them for foreign bodies, as in the case of autoimmune disease Vasculitis in each patient, regardless of gender or age, causes similar symptoms. First, the patient may feel fever and body temperature in this state is not constant, but a variable that can dramatically jump and again fall. And every rise of temperature is evidence of an outbreak of a new focus of inflammation in the blood vessels.

Manifestationsymptoms of inflammation can manifest the characteristic hemorrhages in the skin (see photo), after which it begin the process of destruction of nerve endings and muscles.

Lose bodies for vasculitis depends on what vessels are damaged. That is, if the symptoms are formed in the coronary vessels of the heart, for example, in the future, vasculitis extends to the heart muscle. In the case when vasculitis affects the renal vein, can we talk about jade or heart attack kidney. The development of vasculitis with concomitant arthritis may begin to occur in about 30-40 days.

You can highlight the main symptoms in systemic vasculitis that struck joints:

• The beginning of pain in the joint in the absence of trauma, injury or physical exertion;
• The defeat of the small joints of the hands. The discomfort can last a long time, but it happens in the absence of trauma, stretching, or injury of the hand.

Systemic vasculitis can always be described as a long illness, which constantly runs in the background of additional complications and progress of disease. To predict the condition of the patient is possible only on the basis of analysis of the shape and speed of progression of the disease. It is important to take into account which organs are exposed to defeat, and how strong changes in the structure of vascular tissue.

How to diagnose vasculitis

The greater the number of organs and vessels involved in the pathology, the more easy to diagnose systemic vasculitis. In addition, the diagnosis has the value of the observation of vascular components, as well as the manifestation of sensitivity.

The diagnosis is definitely confirmed during the laboratory testing. Here focuses on allergic or inflammatory processes that are found in the blood of the patient. In addition, the survey is conducted with the help of ultrasound and radiology, which affects both the vessels and the nearby organs. After all the tests to be diagnosed and treatment.

Treatment of vasculitis

Treatment is always selected individually for each patient, and is based on the peculiarities of the organism and the disease. This treatment is always necessary, because of the defeat of the vascular system can be followed by a problem with internal organs. The need for therapy due to a lower risk of remission in a chronic condition of the patient.

For the treatment in the first place isthe use of drugs, which should decrease the body's production of antibodies. And the second direction of action, a decreased tissue sensitivity. To achieve results of treatment using cytostatics, glucocorticoids, which significantly reduce the production of organisms antibodies. Some types of vasculitis respond well to plazmoferez, blood purification.

If it is about the disease is mild, we can restrict use of drugs that are designed to reduce inflammation in the blood vessels, as a rule, these anti-inflammatory drugs such as voltaren, indomethacin.

Sure, in all forms of the disease, the treatment prescribed means reducing blood clotting and reduces the risk of blood clots.

Prevention of the disease

While prevention is considered the causes that lead to the formation of secondary vasculitis. The main recommendations are the following:

• It is necessary to temper an organism, and to use all techniques instead of only water treatments;
• To minimize the pollution of the external environment;
• To exclude a large number of unwarranted medications that can poison the body and cause inflammation in blood vessels.