ALLMedicine™ Vasculitis Center

Aug 14th, 2022 - Indications for kidney biopsy in adult IgA vasculitis (IgAV) remain debated and there are very few studies on this subject. The aim of this study was to establish a correlation between renal histological and clinical-laboratory data. A retrospecti...

Aug 14th, 2022 - The activation of the complement system contributes essentially to the pathogenesis of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated renal vasculitis. We here aimed to directly compare levels of C3 and C4 for outcome prediction in ANCA-as...

Aug 13th, 2022 - To determine the locations and predictive factors of hypertrophic pachymeningitis (HP), a serious central complication of otitis media with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antigen-associated vasculitis (OMAAV). Retrospective study. University hospital....

Aug 12th, 2022 - Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a non-necrotizing granulomatous systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology affecting medium-sized and large arteries usually accompanied or preceded by systemic inflammation. Guselkumab is a monoclonal antibody (mAb) tha...

Aug 12th, 2022 - BACKGROUND Sj(SqrRoot)(Delta)gren s syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation involving the exocrine glands. Salivary and lacrimal glands are predominantly affected leading to dry mouth and dry eyes but other exo...

Mar 8th, 2022 - Kawasaki disease (KD) is a medium vessel vasculitis as presented in the Chapel Hill Consensus Conference nomenclature system (1). It is 1 of 2 primary common vasculitis syndromes that predominantly affect children (the other being IgA vasculitis...

Feb 27th, 2022 - What is the role of plasma exchange and what is the optimal dose of glucocorticoids in the first 6 months of therapy of patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV)? This guideline was triggered by the publi...

Feb 3rd, 2022 - To develop and validate revised classification criteria for eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA). Patients with vasculitis or comparator diseases were recruited into an international cohort. The study proceeded in 5 phases: 1) iden...

Feb 3rd, 2022 - To develop and validate revised classification criteria for granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA). Patients with vasculitis or comparator diseases were recruited into an international cohort. The study proceeded in 5 phases: 1) identification of ...

Feb 3rd, 2022 - To develop and validate classification criteria for microscopic polyangiitis (MPA). Patients with vasculitis or comparator diseases were recruited into an international cohort. The study proceeded in 5 phases: 1) identification of candidate items ...

Aug 12th, 2022 - Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a non-necrotizing granulomatous systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology affecting medium-sized and large arteries usually accompanied or preceded by systemic inflammation. Guselkumab is a monoclonal antibody (mAb) tha...

Aug 12th, 2022 - BACKGROUND Sj(SqrRoot)(Delta)gren s syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation involving the exocrine glands. Salivary and lacrimal glands are predominantly affected leading to dry mouth and dry eyes but other exo...

Aug 12th, 2022 - The purpose of this protocol is to study the natural history of idiopathic systemic vasculitis in children and adults. The idiopathic vasculitides are a group of rare, systemic diseases involving inflammation of arteries and other tissue with resu...

Aug 4th, 2022 - The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of obinutuzumab for the treatment of proteinase 3 Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody (ANCA)-Associated Vasculitis (PR3-AAV).

Aug 2nd, 2022 - This is a multicenter, open-label, 112-week study of sparsentan in approximately 57 pediatric subjects aged ≥1 year to <18 years with selected proteinuric glomerular diseases, divided into 2 populations, defined as follows: Population 1: Subjects ...

Jul 18th, 2022 - Vasculitis is a process in which blood vessels become inflamed and necrotic. Classic small vessel vasculitis reveals a leukocytoclastic vasculitis and most commonly presents as palpable purpura.

Jul 12th, 2022 - On the basis of the patient's medical history and presentation, this is probably a case of uveitis, a common extra-articular manifestation of psoriatic disease. In fact, the presence of uveitis can help distinguish PsA from osteoarthritis.

Jun 8th, 2022 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved brolucizumab (Beovu) for treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME), but included a warning about retinal vasculitis and retinal vascular occlusion. In clinical trials, patients needed fewer in...

Jun 2nd, 2022 - The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology has updated its recommendations for the management of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)–associated vasculitis (AAV). The 2022 revision – which was unveiled at the annual European Cong.

Jun 2nd, 2022 - To the Editor: A 59-year-old man was referred to our clinic for a rash, fever, and night sweats following treatment for metastatic seminoma with cisplatin and etoposide. Physical examination revealed indurated erythematous papules and plaques on t.