Is there a cure for polyarteritis?
There are tratments for Polyarteritis Nodosa, as well as for the many other types of vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels.) But, as yet, there is no cure. Many of these illnesses (the Vasculitides) have a relapsing/remitting course. They worsen and improve on their own. The treatments are to prevent severe damage to the arteries during the relapses, so that patients don’t experience catostrophic complications like spontaneous rupture of a major artery or blockage of a critical artery (like the carotid or a coronary artery) due to the inflammation or due to scar tissue. Steroids and potent drugs that have been used for cancer are frequently necessary to suppress the inflammation.
