What is vasculitis, how is it treated and is it serious?

Vasculitis is an autoimmune disease in which the walls of blood vessels become inflamed or even necrotic, resulting in damage to multiple systems. Vasculitis can be categorized into primary and secondary vasculitis, and there is no clear cause for the disease, which is often thought to be related to genetics, infections, immunity, drugs and other factors. Vasculitis is a complex disease, and is more serious when it develops in the blood vessels of vital organs. If the patient found vasculitis related symptoms recommend timely medical treatment to avoid the development of serious diseases, vasculitis common symptoms and treatments are as follows: a. Common symptoms: 1, general symptoms: vasculitis patients may appear fever, headache, dizziness, weight loss, fatigue, tiredness and other symptoms of inflammation; 2, the skin, muscle, bone: some patients with vasculitis may appear palpable purpura nodules, urticaria, superficial phlebitis, ischemic skin lesions and other skin symptoms or arthralgia, arthritis and other symptoms at the skeletal muscles; 3. Nervous system: if the patient’s vasculitis invades in the nervous system, he/she may suffer from strokes, single or multiple neuritis, etc.; 4. Other symptoms: for example, otitis, iritis, sinusitis, rhinosinusitis, rhinocartilaginous disease such as the five senses, or renal symptoms, such as nephritis, renal hypertension, renal infarcts, etc., the As well as pulmonary symptoms such as nodular pulmonary infiltrative lesions in the lungs, pulmonary phlebitis, hemoptysis and other pulmonary symptoms. Second, the treatment: 1, drug therapy: vasculitis patients need to be based on their own situation under the guidance of the doctor to choose antihistamines, glucocorticoid drugs, immunosuppressive drugs, immunoglobulin and other drugs for symptomatic treatment of vasculitis; 2, surgical treatment: patients with significant vascular stenosis or occlusion, resulting in the typical symptoms of insufficient blood supply, it is recommended that consideration be given to the use of surgical treatment to rebuild the blood flow.