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Vasculitis: multisystem red flags ⚠️
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Systemic vasculitis produces inflammatory blood-vessel injury; presentations may involve skin, nerves, kidneys, lungs, ENT or eyes, sometimes with rapidly irreversible organ damage.
Find the organ threat
- Haemoptysis with falling Hb or infiltrates suggests pulmonary haemorrhage; haematuria/proteinuria with rising creatinine suggests glomerulonephritis.
- Mononeuritis multiplex, purpura, persistent sinus/ear disease or unexplained constitutional inflammation may form a syndrome pattern.
Initial work-up
- Record observations and urine dip, send renal function/FBC/CRP and directed tests; ANCA is supportive only in the right context, not a screening diagnosis.
- Discuss urgent rheumatology/renal/respiratory involvement for organ-threatening disease, while excluding infection that could mimic vasculitis.
- Suspected giant-cell arteritis with visual symptoms is a separate time-critical emergency.
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