title: Coronary vasculitis. A review in the current scheme of classification of vasculitis.
abstract: Coronary artery disease is overwhelmingly atherosclerotic in nature, but inflammatory disease of the coronary arteries can be just as life-threatening a cause of ischemic heart disease in all age groups. Coronary vasculitis is not short in variety; as a clinicopathologic entity it spans the entire spectrum of systemic vasculitides. Coronary vasculitis is most closely associated with the polyarteritis group of necrotizing angiitis, vasculitis of collagen-vascular disease, and granulomatous giant cell arteritis. This article provides an overview of coronary vasculitis as an independent entity as well as a manifestation of systemic vasculitis, both the common and the uncommon varieties.
mesh_terms: D001167:Arteritis / Q000145:classification / Q000473:pathology*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000473:pathology*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D013589:Syphilis, Cardiovascular / Q000473:pathology; D014381:Tuberculosis, Cardiovascular / Q000473:pathology; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000145:classification / Q000473:pathology