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 |