2007-03-23 22:53:14 · 3 answers · asked by john c 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Vasculitis is a large category of diseases, so it's hard to answer your questions without knowing which type you are referring to. Some types may be life threatening, but patients with many types can expect full recovery. In general, the treatment will involve a long course of high dose corticosteroids.
The link below will help you find more information on the specific type of vasculitis that you're looking for.
2007-03-24 14:14:01 · answer #1 · answered by midget giraffe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have chronic kidney failure, my kidneys failed and I was on dialysis and had a kidney transplant in Feb 06. I had a kidney biopsy to find out why they were failing and was told that is was due to vasculitis, which i never knew i had. But it is not showing as active in my blood test. Since then i have looked into it as i didn't know what it was, I found that there was four different groups of it, so without knowing which one you may be talking about it is hard to say.
2007-03-25 02:04:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are 8 differents types .. so it depends on the type. most are very unpleasant but not necessarily life threatening.
2007-03-25 07:23:23 · answer #3 · answered by D B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋