ALLMedicine™ Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis Center

May 14th, 2022 - A woman in her 60s developed acute onset headache, blurry vision and encephalopathy a few hours after rituximab infusion, given to treat granulomatosis with polyangiitis. CT scan showed oedema in the posterior circulation area suggesting the diagn...

May 14th, 2022 - Granulomatosis with polyangiitis is a chronic systemic inflammation of small vessels characterized by circulating anti-proteinase 3 antibodies. MicroRNAs are short transcripts specifically inhibiting protein translation. Neutrophils can release ex...

May 13th, 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...

May 11th, 2022 - Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) vasculitis with pulmonary-renal syndrome rarely presents in children and is associated with high mortality rates. We present the case of a 13-year-old male with newly diagnosed GPA vasculitis, treated with ex...

May 8th, 2022 - ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) can be associated with various cutaneous manifestations. Several case reports have described skin ulceration resembling pyoderma gangrenosum (PG), particularly in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), however, th...

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 ...

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...

Jun 9th, 2015 - Inflammatory diseases of the aorta include routine atherosclerosis, aortitis, periaortitis, and atherosclerosis with excessive inflammatory responses, such as inflammatory atherosclerotic aneurysms. The nomenclature and histologic features of thes...

May 13th, 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...

Apr 11th, 2022 - Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA), also referred to as Churg-Strauss syndrome, is a rare hyper-eosinophilic syndrome. Eosinophilia is central to the pathophysiology of EGPA and interleukin-5 (IL-5) is a key cytokine regulating t...

Mar 18th, 2022 - This is a multi-centre, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind study to evaluate if hydroxychloroquine in combination with background maintenance therapy improves the clinical response and quality of life in patients with AAV. 76 participant...

Feb 10th, 2022 - Rituximab, an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody, has been shown to be as effective as cyclophosphamide to induce GPA and MPA remission, with an acceptable safety profile, leading to its registration by the FDA and EMA as remission-induction therapy in...

Jan 27th, 2022 - Patients with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA, Wegener's) will be recruited at one of the Vasculitis Centers of Excellence. Participants will be randomized 1:1 either to taper their prednisone dose down to 5 mg/day according to a standardize...

Mar 8th, 2022 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Plasma exchange can be an effective treatment for anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV), according to an updated systematic review and meta-analysis. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis and ...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved rituximab (Rituxan) in combination with chemotherapy for pediatric patients (age 6 months to <18 years) with previously untreated, advanced stage, CD20-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (...

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 15th, 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.

Jul 15th, 2021 - Three new guidelines from the American College of Rheumatology, in partnership with the Vasculitis Foundation, offer evidence-based recommendations for managing and treating six different forms of systemic vasculitis. Dr Sharon Chung "It's not unu...