What are the different types of ANCA vasculitis?
In different people, ANCA vasculitis attacks different organs and may be accompanied by different other disease symptoms that are used to make the diagnosis of a specific form of ANCA vasculitis. • Renal limited vasculitis or ANCA glomerulonephritis: the vasculitis is causing glomerulonephritis with no involvement of other organs. • Microscopic polyangiitis: the vasculitis is causing injury to blood vessels in multiple tissues at the same time, such as kidneys, skin, nerves, and lungs. • Wegener’s granulomatosis: the vasculitis is accompanied by a nodular form of destructive inflammation called granulomatous inflammation. This often affects the lung, sinuses, nose, eyes or ears.
