Special Issue "Vasculitis in Adults and Children: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment"
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Vascular Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2023 | Viewed by 70
Special Issue Editor
Interests: vasculitis; rheumatoid arthritis; giant cell arteritis; Takayasu arteritis; ANCA-associated vasculitis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Vasculitis is classified into large-vessel, medium-vessel, and small-vessel vasculitis according to the size of the affected arteries, and causes serious organ damage through ischemia, infarction, bleeding, dissection, and aneurysm formation. Treatment previously relied on high-dose glucocorticoids and cyclophosphamide, regardless of the size of the affected arteries, with substantial side effects; however, in recent years molecularly targeted therapeutic agents, such as tocilizumab, rituximab, mepolizumab, and avacopan, have enabled remission to be effectively induced and/or maintained, and have also reduced the total amount of glucocorticoids required for the corresponding vasculitis. This Special Issue, “Vasculitis in Adults and Children: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment”, summarizes recent topics on the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of vasculitis in both adults and children. Clinical research regarding epidemiology, gender difference, prognostic factors, complications, classification criteria, and treatment, but also basic/translational research which tries to identify novel therapeutic targets, are welcomed. In this way, we should be able to better understand how to diagnose, and how to treat, vasculitis. We also discuss how future therapeutic strategies resolve the current unmet medical needs. Thus, authors are encouraged to submit original research, review articles, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses.
Dr. Ryu Watanabe
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- vasculitis
- glucocorticoids
- cyclophosphamide
- molecularly targeted therapy
- unmet clinical needs
- potential therapeutic targets
