Abstract

Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a systemic necrotizing vasculitis that predominantly affects medium-sized arteries. With advances in our understanding of the pathogenesis and classification of vasculitis, PAN and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), a disease of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV), were separated from the group of diseases previously diagnosed as periarteritis nodosa (PN) at the Chapel Hill Consensus Conference (CHCC) in 1994 (1).

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