vasculitis
vascular disease that is characterized by inflammation of the blood vessels
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Summary
vasculitis is a class of disease[1]. vasculitis ranks in the top 6% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,322 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: symptom or sign[3]
- Subclass of: vascular disease[4], angiitis[5], hemic system symptom[6], disease[7]
- Commons category: Vasculitis[8]
- Symptoms and signs: inflammation[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Vasculitis[10]
- Anatomical location: blood vessel[11]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C26912[12]
- Health specialty: immunology[13], angiology[14], rheumatology[15]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: pentoxifylline[16]
- Genetic association: F8[17], ARHGAP18[18], TSC22D1[19], WNT9B[20]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_865[21], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:865[22], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0002633[23], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000153[24]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[25]
Why It Matters
vasculitis has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] vasculitis is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]