ReviewBest practice & research. Clinical rheumatology2008
The role of infectious agents in the pathogenesis of vasculitis.
Review in Best practice & research. Clinical rheumatology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03692416 (The Effect of Some Drugs Used in Treatment of Vasculitis on the Complement System in Children Attending Assiut University Hospital.), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers.
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The Effect of Some Drugs Used in Treatment of Vasculitis on the Complement System in Children Attending Assiut University Hospital.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Vaccination of cattle with the N terminus of LppQ of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides results in type III immune complex disease upon experimental infection.Infection and immunity · 2015Trial
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- The Great Vasculitis Pretenders: Mycotic Pseudoaneurysm, Aortitis with Occlusive Iliac Thrombus, and Paraneoplastic Aortitis. A Case-Based Review.Mediterranean journal of rheumatology · 2025Article
- Improvements in Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis by Sinusitis Following Treatment of Sphenoid Sinusitis: A Case Report and Literature Review.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2025Review
- Pulmonary Hypertension Secondary to Fungal Infections: Underexplored Pathological Links.Infectious disease reports · 2025Article
- A Review: Can Cytokines Induce Vascular Inflammation as a Sequela of Viral Infections?Health science reports · 2025Article
- The Use of Next-Generation Sequencing to Assist in the Diagnosis of Atypical Vasculitis.Cureus · 2024Article
- Infection and pulmonary vascular diseases consortium: United against a global health challenge.Pulmonary circulation · 2024Article
- The Contribution of Vessel Wall Magnetic Resonance Imaging to the Diagnosis of Primary and Secondary Central Nervous System Vasculitis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Rat bite fever mimicking ANCA-associated vasculitis.Rheumatology international · 2023Review
- Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis Masquerading as Chronic Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2022Article
- Pathogens in Vasculitis: Is It Really Idiopathic?JMA journal · 2021Review
- P-ANCA Systemic Vasculitis Induced by Brucellosis in an Elderly Male Patient.Case reports in rheumatology · 2021Article
- Aberrant heartworm migration to the abdominal aorta and systemic arteriolitis in a dog presenting with vomiting and hemorrhagic diarrhea.The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne · 2016Article
- Computed tomography findings in a patient with fungal aortitis: acute aortic syndrome secondary to fusariosis.Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2013Article
- Clinical features of polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis.Nature reviews. Rheumatology · 2012Review
- HIV-associated large-vessel vasculopathy: a review of the current and emerging clinicopathological spectrum in vascular surgical practice.Cardiovascular journal of AfricaReview
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Numerous human studies and animal models have implicated various infectious agents in the pathogenesis of vasculitis in susceptible hosts. However, the link between infection and vasculitis is very complex and only incompletely understood. In fact, different agents can induce the same type of vasculitis, as the case of leukocytoclastic vasculitis exemplifies. Conversely, the same agent can give rise to a panoply of host responses ranging from a clinically silent infection or localized organ involvement to devastating, widespread vasculitis.
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