A significant percentage of patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) demonstrate coronary artery calcification (CAC) on imaging, with variations by ANCA ...
Nearly all children with ANCA-associated vasculitis demonstrate active kidney disease at diagnosis, and their renal function ...
Former Loose Women star Andrea McLean discovered she had a life-threatening blood disease after having a hysterectomy.
An estimated 5,000 people in the United States are living with Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA), a rare ...
A South Australian man says positive thinking saved his life after he contracted a rare auto-immune disease in December, only ...
Eight-year-old Elizabeth is known as being the life of the party, so it was clear something was off when she was extremely ...
The test, which runs on the Swiss company's high-throughput MosaiQ System, detects 15 different autoantibodies.
A woman with the condition vasculitis now lives with a prosthetic nose after her original one “completely collapsed in on itself”. Vasculitis is a disease in which a person’s immune system attacks ...
Children with AAV and kidney disease face increased risks for long-term renal damage at 1 year, despite the majority achieving inactive renal disease by this time.
Whenever I see a patient with vasculitis for the first time, I really give them resources to go on and look into, what does it mean to have this specific diagnosis and educated patients is really ...
anti-TNF-α therapy does not seem to be effective for this diagnosis. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis is characterized by the presence of a small- and medium-vessel vasculitis, and the presence ...