Discusses the immunological aspects of vasculities and cardiovascular diseases. Carditis; Acute rheumatic fever; Viral myocarditis; Carditis associated with connective tissue diseases; Immunologic effects of infective endocarditis; vasculitis; Systematic necrotizing vasculitis; Wegener granulomatosis; Gitant cell vasculitis and takayasu arteritis; Kawasaki disease; Other forms of vasculitis.