Background: A 40-year-old man was referred to a specialist vasculitis center 4 years after being diagnosed with Wegener's granulomatosis. At the time of diagnosis he had presented with skin ...

Vasculitis is a medical condition involving swollen or inflamed ... Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), or Wegener’s granulomatosis, involves inflammation of the blood vessels of areas of the body ...

Alfred Wegener was one of those people. Though trained as an astronomer, he was a specialist on Greenland. He noticed that, based on nineteenth-century longitude determinations, it appeared that ...

Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin in 1880, where his father was a minister who ran an orphanage. From an early age he took an interest in Greenland, and always walked, skated, and hiked as though ...

Systemic vasculitis is a term encompassing a diverse ... The primary systemic vasculitides include Wegener's granulomatosis (WG), Takayasu's arteritis (TA), polyarteritis nodosa (PAN), microscopic ...

Irene S. Levine is an award-winning travel and lifestyle journalist. It’s been variously called Golfer’s Vasculitis, Disney Rash, Epcot Rash, Dollywood Rash, Hiker’s Rash and Exercise ...

Elevated relapse rate under oral methotrexate versus leflunomide for maintenance of remission in Wegener's granulomatosis. Rheumatology (Oxford) 46 , 1087–1091 (2007). Article CAS Google Scholar ...

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The Danish landscape artist Lili Elvenes (1882-1931), born Einar Wegener and better known as Lili Elbe, and her spouse, the Art Deco portrait artist Gerda Wegener (1886-1940), born Gerda Gottlieb.

We know that this is not the case. Wegener suggested that mountains formed when the edge of a drifting continent collided with another, causing it to crumple and fold. For example, the Himalayas ...

Healthcare providers use various medications to treat vasculitis, a sometimes severe condition that may cause organ damage or ...