How to Use vasculitis in a Sentence

vasculitis

noun
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  • There are many types of vasculitis, and most of them are rare.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Most types of vasculitis are rare, according to the Clinic, and can be short term or long-lasting.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The project halted when her father became ill with vasculitis, a rare disease that involves swelling of the blood vessels.
    — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • Those who have vasculitis often suffer from swelling of the blood vessels that reduces blood flow and may lead to tissue damage.
    — Amy Cheng, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Most forms of vasculitis are rare, as Kutcher referenced.
    — Lisa Mulcahy, Men's Health, 9 Aug. 2022
  • One striking example of a weakness in target cells that leads to an immune response comes from the blood vessel disease vasculitis.
    — Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Agus, who is Ashton Kutcher’s doctor, first spoke with the actor about his battle with the autoimmune condition vasculitis.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Per the Mayo Clinic, vasculitis involves inflammation of the blood vessels, which can limit blood flow and result in organ or tissue damage.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Oghalai says that patients with vasculitis are typically first given a steroid, like prednisone, which block the immune system.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Complications from vasculitis can be as severe as blindness or aneurysms.
    — Amy Cheng, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Actor Ashton Kutcher reveals vasculitis condition that left him unable to walk, hear or see.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • His first doctors believed Cash had central nervous system vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels, and decided to treat it with 11-hour sessions of chemotherapy, two times a month.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The causes of vasculitis aren’t fully understood, but medication and infections have been triggers in some cases.
    — Amy Cheng, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Depending on the specific type and severity of the condition and which organs are targeted, symptoms of vasculitis vary and can be mild, moderate or life-threatening.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 8 Aug. 2022
  • His daughter Sally Bliss said the cause was complications of vasculitis, an inflammatory blood vessel disease.
    — Ian Austen, New York Times, 25 May 2017
  • For instance, gingivitis — a disease that causes inflamed gums — can be an oral manifestation of a type of vasculitis called granulomatosis with polyangiitis.
    — Kiltesh Patel, STAT, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Most types of vasculitis require medication to control inflammation and prevent future flare-ups.
    — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Various diseases such as Cogan’s syndrome fall under the category of vasculitis.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The most common autoimmune diseases study participants developed after the virus were related to vasculitis, when blood vessels become inflamed, according to the research.
    — Julia Marnin, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Infections can lead to petechiae, which are also associated with alcoholism, AIDS, vasculitis (an inflammation of the blood vessels), and certain cancers such as leukemia or lymphoma.
    — Robert A Norman, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2011
  • Many of Fauci’s vasculitis patients suffered from rare inflammatory diseases, such as granulomatosis with polyangiitis, which damages blood vessels in the lungs, kidneys, and other organs.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Well, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Chronic fevers can have a number of underlying causes, among them an uncommon condition known as vasculitis—an inflammation of the blood cells that often occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks its own blood vessels.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Well, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Mayo experts ruled out several possible diagnoses, including vasculitis, a group of rare diseases caused by blood vessel inflammation.
    — The Washington Post, oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Another hypothesis is inflammation of the blood vessel wall, medically known as vasculitis.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2020
  • There are various types of vasculitis — nearly 20, according to the Vasculitis Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
    — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2022

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