Vasculitis :
Vasculitis is a medical term given for a autoimmune group of disorders or conditions characterized by inflammation of blood vessels in the body. In vasculitis, the affected person’s own immune system attacks the normal blood vessels, considering them to be foreign components for ambiguous reasons. Vasculitis can attack arteries, veins, or capillaries of skin, heart, kidneys, lungs, nerves, sinuses, and other organs. There are several types of vasculitis conditions such as ANCA-associated vasculitis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, polyarteritis nodosa, IgA vasculitis, Takayasu arteritis, Behçet’s disease, urticarial vasculitis and Kawasaki disease. The manifestation of symptoms is based on the type of organ or blood vessel that is affected. Some of the common symptoms are neurological signs like numbness or tingling in limbs, breathing difficulty, abdominal pain, kidney problems, skin rashes, joint pain, and fatigue. There is no cure for vasculitis but the symptoms can be managed by medications like immunosuppressants and vasculitis surgery.