The Vasculitides
© Dirk Biddle
3.2 Secondary Vasculitides
Secondary vasculitides are vasculitis conditions secondary to, or associated with, an underlying disease process. Secondary vasculitis is also the term employed when the underlying cause is a neoplasia, drug, or other toxin.
For example:
- Carcinoma-associated vasculitis
- Drug-associated ANCA-associated vasculitis
- Drug-associated immune complex vasculitis
- Hepatitis C virus-associated cryoglobulinemic vasculitis
- Hepatitis B virus-associated vasculitis
- Infection-associated immune complex vasculitis
- Inflammatory bowel disease vasculitis
- Lymphoproliferative neoplasm-associated vasculitis
- Myeloproliferative neoplasm-associated vasculitis
- Rheumatoid vasculitis (a complication of Rheumatoid arthritis)
- Sarcoid vasculitis (a complication of Sarcoidosis)
- Syphilis-associated aortitis
Secondary vasculitides may also be noted in association with other diseases and syndromes such as:
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Cogan's syndrome
- Goodpasture's syndrome
- Relapsing polychondritis
- Rheumatoid vasculitis
- Scleroderma
- Serum sickness
- Sjögren's syndrome
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Urticarial vasculitis
