hypersensitivity vasculitis
- hypersensitivity vasculitis
- 1. a group of systemic necrotizing vasculitides thought to represent hypersensitivity to an antigenic stimulus, such as a drug, infectious agent, or exogenous or endogenous protein; all disorders in this group involve the small vessels. Types include varieties of Henoch-Schцnlein purpura and serum sickness, as well as urticarial v. Called also allergic or leukocytoclastic v. and hypersensitivity or leukocytoclastic angiitis. 2. cutaneous lymphcytoclastic vasculitis, so called because of the hypersensitivity reaction sometimes, but not always, seen.
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