Chapel Hill Consensus Conference


The Chapel Hill Consensus Conferences are a pair of international conferences which addressed the need of standardized classification system for systemic vasculitides.

2012 Revised International Chapel Hill Consensus Conference Nomenclature of Vasculitides

Classification GroupDiseases
Large-vessel vasculitis Takayasu's arteritis ; Giant-cell arteritis
Medium-vessel vasculitis Polyarteritis nodosa, Kawasaki disease
Small vessel vasculitis ANCA-associated vasculitis ; Immune complex SVV
Variable vessel vasculitis Behcet's disease ; Cogan's syndrome
Single Organ Vasculitis Cutaneous leukocytoclastic angiitis; cutaneous arteritis; primary central nervous system vasculitis; isolated aortitis; others
Vasculitis associated with systemic diseaseLupus vasculitis; Rheumatoid vasculitis; Sarcoid vasculitis; others
Vasculitis associated with probable etiologyHepatitis C virus-associated cryoglobulinemic vasculitis; Hepatitis B virus-associated vasculitis; Syphilis-associated aortitis; Drug-associated immune complex vasculitis; Cancer-associated vasculitis; others