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Preface

The Vasculitides, Volume 1: General Considerations and Systemic Vasculitis

The Vasculitides, Volume 2: Nervous System Vasculitis and Treatment

David S. Younger, M.D., M.P.H.1

Editor, Nova Science Publishers
New York University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology,

New York, N.Y., US

Keywords: Preface, Vasculitides, New York University

The International ANCA and Vasculitis Workshop has become the cornerstone for
investigations in vasculitides. Months before the meeting, I was asked by Nova Science
Publishers to edit a book on primary systemic vasculitis and I immediately turned to the
upcoming 16th International ANCA and Vasculitis Workshop organized by the French
Vasculitis Study Group knowing that it would have the most current and authoritative
information. Yet I could not have predicted the depth and scholarly content of the meeting
that I would find there, and the welcoming and ingratiating attitudes of the members. I was
updated on virtually every aspect of primary systemic vasculitis and was able to recruit a
majority of the present authors from the meeting?s leadership and lecturers. Their task as I
explained to them was to compile an authoritative volume on vasculitides.

The ensuing volume entitled, The Vasculitides, has 33 chapters organized into 5 sections
including, General Considerations, Systemic Vasculitis, Nervous System Vasculitis, and
Treatment. The multinational authorship is as diverse as the chapter topics they have been
selected to write. Together they have crafted a volume that is expected to serve the present
needs of epidemiologists, clinicians, investigators, and other health providers interested in
vasculitides. Although there is an emphasis on uniform categorization according to the 2012

1 Address for Correspondence: David S. Younger M.D., M.P.H., 333 East 34Th Street, Suite 1J, New York, N.Y.,
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