Microscopic Polyangiitis

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Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) is an inflammation of the medium and small vessel walls that can affect different parts of the body including (but not limited to) the kidneys, lungs, sinuses, nerves and skin.Over 90% of those with MPA have the disease in their kidney and it is indistinguishable from the kidney disease that patients with classic Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) often have. The main difference between MPA and WG is that MPA does not have a particular type of inflammation --granulomatous inflammation. Similarly, MPA shares some overlap with PAN and other vasculitudes. Thus in 1994, characteristics of MPA were defined at the Chapel Hill Consensus Conference.

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