Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Vasculitis
Inflammation of blood vessel
HP:0002633
What it means
Inflammation of blood vessel.
In everyday care
Most people with this sign do not have a rare disease — it appears in common conditions far more often. These general reference pages cover the same topic:
Rare diseases that can present with this41
Very common80–99%
13- Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease
- Behçet disease
- Buerger disease
- Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis
- Cutaneous small vessel vasculitis
- Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Giant cell arteritis
- Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Hughes-Stovin syndrome
- Immunoglobulin A vasculitis
- Kawasaki disease
- Microscopic polyangiitis
- Takayasu arteritis
Common30–79%
3Sometimes5–29%
21- Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome
- Chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis/Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis
- Cogan syndrome
- Dermatomyositis
- Extracranial carotid artery aneurysm
- Familial Mediterranean fever
- Glycogen storage disease due to acid maltase deficiency
- Intermediate uveitis
and 13 more in this range
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions, and Orphanet separately records 2 diseases where this sign is specifically absent. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Angiitis
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Start free with EleplanThis page uses the Human Phenotype Ontology (2026-06-23) — Human Phenotype Ontology Consortium, hpo.jax.org. Disease associations from Orphanet (INSERM), CC BY 4.0. Content is educational and is not medical advice.