Chapel Hill Consensus Conference

The Chapel Hill Consensus Conferences (CHCC) (1994 and 2012) are a pair of international conferences which addressed the need of standardized classification system for sytemic vasculitides.[1][2]

2012 Revised International Chapel Hill Consensus Conference Nomenclature of Vasculitides

Classification Group Diseases
Large-vessel vasculitis (LVV) Takayasu Arteritis (TAK); Giant cell arteritis (GCA)
Medium-vessel vasculitis (MVV) Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN), Kawasaki disease (KD)
Small vessel vasculitis (SVV) ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV); Immune complex SVV
Variable vessel vasculitis (VVV) Behcet's disease (BD); Cogan's syndroem (CS)
Single Organ Vasculitis (SOV) Cutaneous leukocytoclastic angiitis; cutaneous arteritis; primary central nervous system vasculitis; isolated aortitis; others
Vasculitis associated with systemic disease

Lupus vasculitis; Rheumatoid vasculitis; Sarcoid vasculitis; others

Vasculitis associated with probable etiology Hepatitis C virus-associated cryoglobulinemic vasculitis; Hepatitis B virus-associated vasculitis; Syphilis-associated aortitis; Drug-associated immune complex vasculitis; Cancer-associated vasculitis; others

References

  1. ↑ Jeannette JC; Nomenclature of systemic vasculitides. Proposal of an international consensus conference; Arthritis Rheum 2013
  2. ↑ Jeannette, JC; Overview of the 2012 Revised International Chapel Hill Consensus Conference Nomenclature of Vasculitides; Clinical and Experimental Nephrology, 2013
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