ALLMedicine™ Vasculitis Center

Jan 22nd, 2022 - Behҫet disease is a multisystem inflammatory disease and variable vessel vasculitis involving primarily the oral and genital mucosa, skin, and eyes. Diagnosis is challenging due to the lack of a specific diagnostic test and overlap with other auto...

Jan 22nd, 2022 - A 56-year-old woman was admitted due to new ulceration and acute digital ischaemia on a background of chronic leg ulcers bilaterally. Vasculitis screening returned strongly positive lupus anticoagulant levels and elevated anticardiolipin antibodie...

Jan 19th, 2022 - Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is a potentially fatal small vessel vasculitis of unknown etiology, characterized by anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies, chronic inflammation, and granulomatous tissue damage. T cell dysregulation, co...

Jan 19th, 2022 - Granulomatous vasculitis presenting as annular erythema in neurosarcoidosis.|2022|Karakida K,Nunokawa T,Chinen N,Komatsu A,|

Jan 19th, 2022 - Joint involvement can be observed during the course of adult IgA vasculitis (IgAV). However, clinical picture, prognosis, or pathophysiological data associated with this condition have been overlooked. We aimed to describe the clinical characteris...

Nov 20th, 2021 - Cerebrovascular disease is a broad topic. This document focuses on the imaging recommendations for the varied clinical scenarios involving intracranial aneurysms, vascular malformations, and vasculitis, which all carry high risk of morbidity and m...

Nov 20th, 2021 - Noncerebral vasculitis is a wide-range noninfectious inflammatory disorder affecting the vessels. Vasculitides have been categorized based on the vessel size, such as large-vessel vasculitis, medium-vessel vasculitis, and small-vessel vasculitis. ...

Sep 25th, 2021 - The Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Glomerular Diseases is an update to the KDIGO 2012 guideline. The aim is to assist clinicians caring for individuals with glomerulonephritis (G...

Jul 9th, 2021 - To provide evidence-based recommendations and expert guidance for the management of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV), including granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), and eosinophilic...

Jul 9th, 2021 - To provide evidence-based recommendations and expert guidance for the management of systemic polyarteritis nodosa (PAN). Twenty-one clinical questions regarding diagnostic testing, treatment, and management were developed in the population, interv...

Jan 19th, 2022 - Brain injury is one of the complications in COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) survivors, though the precise underlying mechanism is unclear. It is likely caused by a combination of prolonged hypoxia, a massive systemic inflammatory response, dire...

Jan 11th, 2022 - Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), is a small-sized vessel necrotizing vasculitis associated with anti-neutrophils cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA). Treatment of ANCA associated vasculitis (AAV) was previously based on glucocorticoids (GC) and cyclophosph...

Jan 11th, 2022 - Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute self-limited vasculitis and occurs almost exclusively in childhood. It predominantly affects medium-sized arteries, most commonly the coronary arteries. Although the use of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) has ob...

Jan 10th, 2022 - IgA vasculitis is relatively common in children,especially in Asian countries. Abdominal manifestation could be severe, including bleeding, pancreatitis,appendicitis and intestinal intussusception. Delayed diagnosis could be fatal and cause severe...

Jan 5th, 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...

Jan 4th, 2022 - Registry data collected in 30 European countries indicate that reactions to COVID-19 vaccines were no different in individuals with inflammatory rheumatic illnesses versus non-inflammatory conditions such as osteoporosis, researchers said. In phys...

Jan 3rd, 2022 - Use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) was clearly associated with higher incidences of specific neurologic toxicities in a broad-based retrospective pharmacovigilance study, and clinicians need to monitor for these immune-related adverse even...

Nov 22nd, 2021 - The Diagnosis: Vibrio vulnificus Infection At the initial presentation, the differential diagnosis included infectious processes such as bacterial or angioinvasive fungal infections or an inflammatory process such as pyoderma gangrenosum. Blood cu.

Nov 17th, 2021 - Rituximab didn't perform any worse or better at inducing remission after a year in patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) than did conventional treatment with cyclophosphamide in the phase 3 REOVAS trial conducted in Fr...

Nov 16th, 2021 - Dr David R.W. Jayne Treatment of antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis and renal disease with the oral C5a receptor inhibitor avacopan (Tavneos, ChemoCentryx) provides significant recovery of kidney function compared...