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Complaints and Findings That Suspect Vasculitis Vasculitis can affect almost any organ or tissue and can cause a large number of complaints and findings. Many of the signs and symptoms occur directly due to decreased blood flow in the tissue. However, some findings such as granuloma, invasion of the tissue by the body's defense cells, can also occur in specific vasculitis. In addition, patients with vasculitis commonly complain of generalized complaints such as fever, fatigue, weight loss, arthralgia, or joint pain, and myalgia, or muscle pain. In other words, they do not only present with wounds observed on the skin (like the legs in the pictures above), but can also cause fever, fatigue, weight loss, and muscle and joint pain in the body, the cause of which cannot be understood. How is a Vasculitis Patient Diagnosed? The most important diagnostic tool is for the DOCTOR to KNOW THESE DISEASES and to take a BIOPSY from the patient with the complaints. If the doctor has no experience with these diseases, he/she calls the leg wounds VARICOSE WOUNDS and prescribes VARICOSE STOCKINGS, which increases the progression of the vasculitis disease.