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“We owe it to our patients, we owe it to their loved ones, we owe it to the victims of these atrocities,” said Dr. Eric Matteson, a retired rheumatologist who helped rename a disease of inflamed blood vessels formerly known as Wegener’s granulomatosis.

In 2011, several major medical organizations moved to replace Wegener’s syndrome with “granulomatosis with polyangiitis” — a mouthful, admittedly.

“I think you have something called eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis,” Kocharla said.

There are many different types of vasculitis that go by different names, including Behcet's disease, Henoch-Schonlein purpura, Churg-Strauss syndrome, Buerger's disease, Cryoglobulinemia, Takayasu's arteritis, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, Kawasaki disease and giant cell arteritis.

Wegener’s disease, also known as granulomatosis with polyangiitis, is a condition that affects blood vessels and tissue in certain parts of the body, including the sinuses.