2023-05-15 12:01:17
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is an autoimmune disease. Someone with GPA has inflammation in the small blood vessels. This can be in the small blood vessels in places throughout the body. The cause of GPA is not yet known.
Characteristics that someone with GPA may have are:
- Problems with the upper respiratory tract such as: inflammation of the sinuses, nasal congestion and/or frequent nosebleeds. People can one zadelneus to get
- Frequent ear infections and hearing loss
- Disease of the lungs, where a person may cough up blood, be short of breath and have chest pain
- Being hoarse
- Kidney damagecausing someone kidney filter inflammation and eventually kidney failure could get
- Pain in the joints
- Inflammations of parts of the eyes, such as conjunctivitis in scleritis
- Disorders of the brain and nerves
- Fever
- Lose weight
- Being very tired
- Feeling sick yourself
Look for information about at characteristics on the website of the Vasculitis foundation ‘the course: symptoms’.
GPA can develop at any age. Which characteristics someone gets and how much trouble someone has with it, differs between people.
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