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Vasculitis Support Group West Midlands
15 Chepstow Grove
Birmingham
B45 8EG
Tel: 0121 243 5621
Best time to telephone: evenings
Systemic vasculitis is an autoimmune disease causing inflammation of the blood vessel walls. Symptoms vary with individuals depending on which blood vessels are involved. The severity of the disease also varies from mild, needing little or no treatment, to extremely serious requiring intensive care therapy.
Vasculitis Support Group West Midlands was set up to provide support for patients and carers by circulating information and ideas.
Examples of systemic vasculitis:
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- Churg-Strauss syndrome
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Microscopic polyangiitis (polyarteritis)
- Giant cell arteritis/Temporal arteritis
- Takayasu arteritis
- Kawasaki arteritis
- Behcçets disease
- Cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis
- Cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis
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