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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Exp Nephrol. 2013 Sep 27;17(5):603–606. doi: 10.1007/s10157-013-0869-6

Table 1.

Names for vasculitides adopted by the 2012 International Chapel Hill Consensus Conference on the Nomenclature of Vasculitides. The items highlighted in red are changes or additions compared to the 1994 International Chapel Hill Consensus Conference on the Nomenclature of Vasculitides. Modified from reference 2.

Large vessel vasculitis (LVV)
 Takayasu arteritis (TAK)
 Giant cell arteritis (GCA)
Medium vessel vasculitis (MVV)
 Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN)
 Kawasaki disease (KD)
Small vessel vasculitis (SVV)
 Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)–associated vasculitis (AAV)
  Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA)
  Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener’s) (GPA)
  Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Churg-Strauss) (EGPA)
 Immune complex SVV
  Anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease
  Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis (CV)
  IgA vasculitis (Henoch-Schönlein) (IgAV)
  Hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis (HUV) (anti-C1q vasculitis)
Variable vessel vasculitis (VVV)
 Behcet’s disease (BD)
 Cogan’s syndrome (CS)
Single-organ vasculitis (SOV)
 Cutaneous leukocytoclastic angiitis
 Cutaneous arteritis
 Primary central nervous system vasculitis Isolated aortitis
 Others
Vasculitis associated with systemic disease
 Lupus vasculitis
 Rheumatoid vasculitis
 Sarcoid vasculitis
 Others
Vasculitis associated with probable etiology
 Hepatitis C virus–associated cryoglobulinemic vasculitis
 Hepatitis B virus–associated vasculitis
 Syphilis-associated aortitis
 Drug-associated immune complex vasculitis
 Drug-associated ANCA-associated vasculitis
 Cancer-associated vasculitis
 Others