Abstract
The article reviews the clinical symptoms, main complications in patients with ANCA-associated systemic vasculitis (granulomatous with polyangiitis, microscopic polyangiitis, eosinophilic granulomatous with polyangiitis) and polyarteritis nodosa during the first three years of the disease. We evaluated the relationship between complications and long-term glucocorticosteroid therapy. Patients with granulomatosis had the most unfavourable course of the disease with a high risk of complications. A high incidence of ischemic strokes and chronic kidney disease in patients with microscopic polyangiitis has been identified. We also analyzed cases of lethal outcomes in patients with primary systemic vasculitis.
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