Evolving concepts in classification of systemic vasculitis: where are we and what is the way forward?

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The classification of the systemic vasculitides has been controversial for several decades. The Chapel Hill consensus Conference definitions originally developed in 1994, but revised and extended in 2012 are now widely accepted. The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria were first published in 1990, are now generally accepted to be out of date and new criteria are needed. More recently the classical...

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