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Vasculitis is an inflammatory disease of blood vessels leading to destruction of the vessel wall, subsequent proliferation and obliteration of their lumen. The clinical syndromes are associated with ischaemia of tissues supplied by the damaged blood vessels and general manifestations of inflammatory diseases. Vasculitis may develop de novo as a primary involvement of the vessel wall of unknown aetiology or as a secondary disorder in other common or rarer primary processes.

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Dedication

This monography was supported by project of Ministry of Health, concept development of Research Organisation Nr.023728 (Institute of Rheumatology).

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  1. Institute of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic

    Radim Bečvář

  2. National Institute of Rheumatic Diseases, Piešťany, Slovakia

    Jozef Rovenský

  3. Department of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Jozef Rovenský

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Bečvář, R., Rovenský, J. (2017). Vasculitides. In: Rovenský, J. (eds) Gerontorheumatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31169-2_7

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