[Vasculitis : EULAR/ACR guidelines with respect to the clinical cardiological routine].

In this article the diagnostics, differential diagnosis, laboratory findings, multimodal imaging and treatment of vasculitis of small, medium and large vessels as well as granulomatous and eosinophilic vascular diseases are described in the context of previous and current European League against Rheumatism (EULAR) and American College of Rheumatology (ACR) recommendations. Vasculitis is a syndrome which is part of various clinical disease entities, such as Wegener's granulomatosis, polyangiitis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, polyarteritis nodosa, cryoglobulinemia and other forms of vasculitis.