A significant percentage of patients with RA and ANCA positivity were also diagnosed with AAV, with GPA being the most common subtype.

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 ...

Relapse is common among patients with systemic polyarteritis nodosa, with mycophenolate performing similarly to cyclophosphamide.

Vasculitis is an autoimmune disorder that causes inflammation of the blood vessels. It can affect arteries, veins, and capillaries. This condition causes blood vessel walls to swell, which ...

Treatment results in remission for about 85% of patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated small-vessel vasculitis; however, 11–57% of these suffer relapse, which can ...

An elderly patient who was initially suspected of having antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) was instead diagnosed with multiple myeloma, according to a case report ...

Cutaneous vasculitis (CV) is a term used for inflammation ... Other clinical features include: The patient has the following antibodies: P-ANCA positive with perinuclear pattern (anti ...