Rheumatoid Vasculitis
Rheumatoid vasculitis (RV) refers to patients with rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic disease with painful inflammation of the joints, who also develop inflammatory disease in small and medium-sized blood vessels. RV most commonly occurs in the skin as venulitis or capillaritis, meaning the very smallest blood vessels are affected by inflammation from the disease. RV occurs in approximately 2 to 5 % of patients who have rheumatoid arthritis.
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