Infections like hepatitis B and hepatitis C or blood cancers can cause the condition, where the immune system attacks blood vessels. Factors such as age, medical history, and a genetic history of ...

Experiencing persistent joint pain, fatigue or unexplained rashes? These could be signs of an autoimmune condition.

Drugs called corticosteroids are often the first treatment for an autoimmune disease. “They work quickly, and they’re ...

Ashton Kutcher has revealed that he had vasculitis, a rare autoimmune disorder that caused him to lose the ability to see, hear, and walk. “Like two years ago, I had this weird, super rare form of ...

Ashton Kutcher offers new insight into his battle with vasculitis: The fast five 1. Ashton Kutcher offered additional information about his struggle with vasculitis, a rare autoimmune disease that ...

“The skin rash, or ‘covid toes’ as some people have started to call it is not directly caused by the virus. It is one of the results of an over-active immune system, leading to an allergic type rash ...

Kouroukis acknowledges rashes can sometimes be how lymphoma manifests itself. “Rashes can be signs of other things as well, [like] autoimmune disorders, vasculitis, as well as cancer,” he said.

Although a case of suspected systemic vasculitis has been reported in association with the condition, 2 it was not proven histologically, unlike in our case. Disease pathogenesis appears to be due to ...

The insights are relevant to other infection-associated autoimmune conditions, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and multiple sclerosis, which are also linked to other bacterial and viral infections.

Neutrophil single-cell analysis identifies a type II interferon-related subset for predicting relapse of autoimmune small vessel vasculitis. Nature Communications. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58550-7.