[Differential diagnosis of inflammation-induced arterial vascular diseases]

The clarification of non-arteriosclerotic inflammatory vascular diseases is based on angiological, angiographical, immunological and immunohistological methods and parameters. As causes of the arterial occlusive disease of younger patients are taken into consideration the obliterating endangiitis and Takayasu's aortoarteriitis. To the clinical manifestations of the giant cell arteriitis belong the temporal arteriitis and the rheumatic polymyalgia. Hypersensitivity and panangiitides are to be delimited from the group of the pathergic granulomatoses. The secondary Raynaud's syndrome on the basis of a digital arteriitis is of differential-diagnostic and prognostic importance in collagenoses and rheumatoid arthritis.