PLEUROPULMONARY MANIFESTATIONS OF SYSTEMI C VASCULITIS

Pleuropulmonary manifestations of systemic vasculitis are common, poly morphic and of ambiguous significance: the same pulmonary lesion may r eveal a specific manifestation of vasculitis as well as a therapy-indu ced complication, especially infection which may favor per se a flare- up. Two questions will be successively studied: what are the pleuropul monary characteristics of Wegener's granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss synd rome, periarteritis nodosa, Behcet's disease, Takayasu's disease and t emporal arteritis ? What are the major adverse effects that may occur in the course of a treated systemic vasculitis?