Polyarteritis Nodosa

Overview

Journal Tech Vasc Interv Radiol

Specialties Cardiology & Vascular Diseases
Radiology

Date 2015 Mar 16

PMID 25770638

Citations 12

Authors

Travis Howard

Kinza Ahmad

Jerome Allen A Swanson

Sanjay Misra

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Abstract

The first description of polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) was in 1852 by Karl Rokitansky, a pathologist at the University of Vienna. The initial report describes a 23-year-old man who had a 5-day history of fever and diarrhea. Since then, the definition of PAN has evolved. The currently accepted definition of PAN comes from the 2012 Chapel Hill Conference, which classified PAN as a necrotizing arteritis not associated with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies of medium or small arteries without glomerulonephritis or vasculitis in arterioles, capillaries, or venules.

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