ALLMedicine™ Mononeuritis Multiplex Center

Mar 31st, 2022 - Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA), also known as Churg Strauss Syndrome, is an uncommon vasculitis associated with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA). The hallmarks of the disease are asthma, eosinophilia and systemic va...

Feb 25th, 2022 - Mononeuritis multiplex is a rare autoimmune peripheral neuropathy that typically presents in the context of vasculitis, diabetes, infection, or as a paraneoplastic syndrome. Adverse immune-related neurological conditions have been increasingly rep...

Feb 4th, 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 five phases: (1) ...

Oct 16th, 2021 - Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is an antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis. It is an uncommon multisystem disease involving predominantly small vessels and is characterized by granulomatous inflammation, pauci-immune ne...

Sep 22nd, 2021 - The most common neurological manifestation of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA), formerly called Churg-Strauss syndrome, is mononeuritis multiplex caused by small-vessel vasculitis. In contrast, central nervous system involvemen...

Sep 7th, 2017 - Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is the most common chronic autoimmune systemic inflammatory arthritis, associated with considerable impairments of Quality of life . Hand is the principle means by which an individual interacts with people and objects in ...

Apr 28th, 2021 - This article originally appeared on the Hospital for Special Surgery's website. Case Report A 45-year-old woman with a history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) since 2006 came to the Hospital for Special Surgery in 2014 for continued manageme...

Aug 1st, 2019 - Hospitalizations were common among patients with polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) and were associated with high risks of complications and high cost expenditures, researchers reported. Analysis of data from a large U.S. database found that the inpatient...

Apr 24th, 2018 - Patient Profile I recently saw a 51-year-old man who had been diagnosed with eosinophilic myocarditis related to eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA)/Churg-Strauss vasculitis. He was sent to me for consideration of immunosuppressiv...

May 24th, 2013 - Furthermore, disease-specific autoantibodies and immunological markers are not present in cases of axonal polyneuropathies, but Sjögren’s patients with mononeuritis multiplex may have cryoglobulinemia types II or III, high anti–rheumatoid factor,.

WASHINGTON — Sural nerve biopsy may be indicated in patients with refractory diabetic neuropathy, because they may have neural inflammation that responds to intravenous immunoglobulin, Dr. David S.