The vasculitic diseases are usually classified according to the predominant size of vessel involved.
Detailed information on the individual vasculitides can be found under Individual Diseases
Vasculitis mainly affecting large arteries
- Giant Cell Arteritis/Temporal Arteritis (GCA)
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
- Takayasu Arteritis (TA)
Vasculitis mainly affecting middle sized arteries
- Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN)
- Kawasaki Disease (KD
Diseases affecting the small blood vessels
- Also see section Diseases affecting the small blood vessels
- These are divided into ANCA associated vasculitis and non-ANCA vasculitis.
ANCA associated vasculitis
- Churg Strauss Syndrome (CSS) now renamed: Eosinophillic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA)
- Microscopic Polyangiitis (MPA)
- Wegener’s Granulomatosis (WG) now renamed: Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA)
Non-ANCA vasculitis
- Henoch-Schönlein Purpura (HSP)
Less common vasculitides
- Behçet’s Disease (BD)
- Buerger’s Disease
- Central Nervous System Vasculitis (CNS)/Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System (PACNS)
- Cogan’s Syndrome
- Cryoglobulinemia and Cryoglobulinaemic Vasculitis
- Hypersensitivity Vasculitis (HSV)
- Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) (secondary vasculitis)
Further reading
- Large Vessel Diseases – Ashima Gulati, Arvind Bagga
- Medium-sized Vessel Diseases – Michael J Dillon, Despina Eletheriou, Paul A Brogan
- Small Vessel Vasculitis – Paul Brogan, Despina Eletheriou, Michael Dillon
- Small vessel and medium vessel vasculitis – Philip Seo, John H Stone
- Management of ANCA-associated vasculitis: Current trends and future prospects – Sally Hamour, Alan D Salama, Charles D Pusey
An excellent video that explains very clearly and graphically, the different types of vasculitis by the size of the blood vessels involved, from the Khan Academy in the USA. Khan Academy.