Carol A. Langford, MD, MHS, FACP
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Langford reports no relevant financial disclosures.
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Vasculitis awareness is important and is an area that, you know, we have worked to try and raise in many different ways. All forms of vasculitis are considered rare diseases, you know, how that's defined by the FDA. And I know one of the difficult things that patients have told me as far as is that it's hard to have something where they share this with their friends and family, and it's a diagnosis sometimes that people have never heard of. They've also told me that sometimes one of the things, they've been grateful to hear of when it appears sometimes on a medical television show where their diagnosis has been mentioned. It's very important to them to increase the awareness about this. This is something that is out there that people can be challenged by, but also recognizing that this is something, you know, that they can, very much improve through and, be able to have very active lives with.
