The following is a summary of “Incidence of ANCA associated vasculitis and polyarteritis nodosa in Norfolk, UK, from ...

A Japanese study finds avacopan effective in ANCA-associated vasculitis, with 90% achieving remission at 12 months. However, ...

More than 50% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) develop lupus nephritis (LN) during the disease, which may ...

Nearly all children with ANCA-associated vasculitis demonstrate active kidney disease at diagnosis, and their renal function ...

A South Australian man says positive thinking saved his life after he contracted a rare auto-immune disease in December, only ...

Dysregulation of IC molecules has been described in several autoimmune diseases; however, little is known about the role of ICs in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis ...

imed3.med.osaka-u.ac.jp Objectives Inappropriate activation of neutrophils plays a pathological role in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV ... surface SEMA4D ...

5 A new EUVAS (European Vasculitis Study Group) study has demonstrated that capture ELISA is superior to direct ELISA for PR3-ANCA detection in Wegener's granulomatosis. 6 The best strategy to ...

Objective To compare two long-term remission maintenance strategies for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) vasculitis. Methods We conducted a prospective, single-centre, open-label, randomised ...

Since the size of the involved vessels in small-vessel vasculitis (200–500 μm) is smaller than the resolution capability of digital subtraction arteriography (DSA), false-negative results are ...

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Objectives A few studies on antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) treatments have shown the therapeutic efficacy of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF). However, the ...