Your clinic with flu like symptoms with fever

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A 30 year old Asian American female presents to your clinic with flu like symptoms with fever, malaise, and fatigue. She is diagnosed with the flu and sent home. She comes back to see you not feeling any better after two weeks with pain all over, arthralgias, dyspnea, palpitations, headache, a rash, and hemoptysis. Physical exam shows an elevated blood pressure much higher than the patient's baseline. Lab data shows, elevated ESR and CRP, a normochromic normocytic anemia is present on peripheral smear, you order CT scan of the aorta and it shows inflammation and vasculitis. You prescribe her to take corticosteroids for the next several weeks and start methotrexate as well. Which disease process below BEST fits this clinical scenario?

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