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Review
. 2019 Mar 19:18:e20180092.
doi: 10.1590/1677-5449.009218. eCollection 2019.

Algorithm for diagnosis of primary vasculitides

Alexandre Sacchetti Bezerra  1 , Afonso César Polimanti  1 , Rafael Vilhena de Carvalho Fürst  1 , João Antônio Corrêa  1
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Review

Algorithm for diagnosis of primary vasculitides

Alexandre Sacchetti Bezerra et al. J Vasc Bras. .

Abstract
in English, Portuguese

Primary vasculitides are diseases with a wide variety of anatomical, clinical, radiological, and laboratory presentations. Primary vasculitides are difficult to diagnose because of the complexity of clinical presentation, which may lead to delayed treatment and increased financial costs of workup investigations involving non-essential tests. Our objective in the present study is to create an algorithm that helps diagnosis of Primary vasculitides. The algorithm presented in this article allows fast, simple and cost-effective diagnosis of primary vasculitides using just clinical concepts and a few laboratory tests.

As vasculites primárias são doenças que possuem apresentações anatômicas, clínicas, radiológicas e laboratoriais muito distintas. Em virtude da complexidade dos quadros clínicos apresentados, as vasculites primárias são de difícil diagnóstico, o que pode promover um retardo no início da terapêutica, além de aumentar os custos financeiros da investigação propedêutica com exames não essenciais. O objetivo deste estudo foi criar um algoritmo que auxilie o diagnóstico das vasculites primárias. O algoritmo apresentado neste artigo permite a realização de diagnóstico rápido, simples e de baixo custo nas vasculites primárias, com a utilização de alguns conceitos clínicos e poucos exames laboratoriais.

Keywords: algorithms; classification; diagnosis, differential; systemic vasculitis; vasculitis.

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Conflicts of interest: No conflicts of interest declared concerning the publication of this article.

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Figure 1. Diagnostic algorithm for primary vasculitides.
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