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. 2021 Aug 26;13(8):e17462. doi: 10.7759/cureus.17462

Table 1. Nomenclature of vasculitis as per the international Chapel Hill Consensus.

Size of the blood vessel involved Involved entities
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-Schonlein); hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis (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