**Meet the editors**

Dr Sakkas is Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology at the Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, and Director of Rheumatology Clinic, University General Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece. He is also Adjunct Professor, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA, and President of the Institute of Rheumatic Diseases, Greece. Dr Sakkas received his MD degree

and his DM degree from the Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece, and his PhD degree from London University, UK. Since 1998 he has been at the Univesity of Thessaly and Director of the Rheumatology Clinic, and first as Assistant Professor, and then Associate Professor and Professor. Dr Sakkas has served as Editor of the Hellenic Rheumatology, the official journal of the Hellenic Society of Rheumatology (2007-present) and guest Editor of Current Rheumatology Reviews (2010). He has also served on the Editorial Boards of Clinical Immunology (2005-8), International Journal of Biomedical Sciences (2006-present), World Journal of Rheumatology (2011-present), and World Journal of Orthopedics (2011-present). His research interests include inflammation in rheumatic diseases and particularly rheumatoid arthritis, systemic sclerosis, and osteoarthritis where he has worked for nearly 10 years at Guy's Hospital, London, UK, and Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Dr Sakkas has published more than 140 articles, reviews, and chapters in international and Greek scientific journals and textbooks, with impact factor more than 237, and more than 1600 citations.

Dr Katsiari is a Lecturer of Medicine and Rheumatology at the Faculty of Medicine School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly and Consultant of the Rheumatology Clinic, University General Hospital of Larissa, Larissa Greece. Dr Katsiari received her MD and PhD degree from the Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece. Following her degree she worked at

the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington DC, USA, where her work under the mentorship of Professor George Tsokos launched the research on phosphatases in T cells in patients with lupus (RO1 grant). Dr Katsiari has served on the editorial board of Hellenic Rheumatology, as regular reviewer in several journals (Lupus, Clinical Immunology, Open Rheumatology, FEBS Journal, Neurology). Since 2010 she has been at the University of Larissa. Her research interests include pathophysiologic mechanisms and targeted treatment of autoimmune diseases and particularly systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis and Adamandiades-Behcet's disease. Dr Katsiari has published more than 30 articles, reviews and chapters in international and Greek scientific journals and textbooks, with impact factor more than 100, and more than 800 citations.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Vasculitis 1**

Summers

N. Lukán

Mohamed Abdgawad

**Renal Vasculitis 33**

**Renal Syndrome: A Review 73**

**Response to Treatment 93**

Alexandros Sarantopoulos

**Neuropathies 111**

Chapter 6 **Infectious Causes of Vasculitis 131** Jacques Choucair

Mislav Radić and Josipa Radić

Aurore Fifi-Mah and Cheryl Barnabe

Chapter 1 **History, Classification and Pathophysiology of Small Vessel**

Chapter 2 **The Pathogenesis of Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody**

Chapter 3 **Immunological Mechanisms and Clinical Aspects in Pulmonary-**

Chapter 4 **Immunopathophysiology of Large Vessel Involvement in Giant Cell Arteritis — Implications on Disease Phenotype and**

Chapter 5 **Giant Cell Arteritis and Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic**

Chapter 7 **Vasculitis and Vasculopathy in Rheumatic Diseases 161**

Chapter 8 **Treatment of ANCA-Associated Vasculitis in Adults 189**

Dragos Catalin Jianu and Silviana Nina Jianu

Sharon Lee Ford, Stephen Roger Holdsworth and Shaun Andrew

Panagiota Boura, Konstantinos Tselios, Ioannis Gkougkourelas and
