vasculitis activity
Red Blood Cell Distribution Width Can Predict Vasculitis Activity and Poor Prognosis in Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
... with vasculitis activity of GPA, we excluded 5 patients with anae- mia ...predict vasculitis activity in 27 patients with ...predict vasculitis activity of GPA at the same time, ...
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Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio at diagnosis can estimate vasculitis activity and poor prognosis in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis: a retrospective study
... estimate vasculitis activity at diagnosis and poor prognosis during follow-up in patients with ...Birmingham vasculitis activity score [BVAS] for severe ...
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Delta Neutrophil Index Is Associated with Vasculitis Activity and Risk of Relapse in ANCA Associated Vasculitis
... cross-sectional vasculitis activity of ...Birmingham vasculitis activity score (BVAS) at diagnosis and could predict relapse during the follow-up in patients with ...
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Granulomatosis with polyangiitis: a 17 year experience from a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan
... associated vasculitis from the developing ...disease activity and damage through the Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score ...associated vasculitis cases so that their clinical pres- ...
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Comparison between optical coherence tomography angiography and fluorescein angiography findings in retinal vasculitis
... FA continues to be an essential complementary exam to detect retinal vasculitis activity. Nevertheless, many severe secondary complications of retinal vasculitis are not well evaluated only by FA. ...
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IgG4:IgG RNA ratio differentiates active disease from remission in granulomatosis with polyangiitis: a new disease activity marker? A cross sectional and longitudinal study
... disease activity in ...following vasculitis activity to dampen the inflam- ...disease activity is probably a reflection of continued stable production of IgG4 by plasma cells located in bone ...
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Aberrant cytokine pattern of the nasal mucosa in granulomatosis with polyangiitis
... European Vasculitis Study Group definitions and recent EULAR recommenda- tions ...disease activity was classified using the Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score (BVAS) ...The Vasculitis ...
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Plasma complement factor H is associated with disease activity of patients with ANCA associated vasculitis
... antibody-associated vasculitis; aHUS: Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome; ANCA: Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody; ANOVA: Analysis of variance; AUC: Area under the curve; BSA: Bovine serum albumin; BVAS: ...
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Takayasu arteritis in childhood: retrospective experience from a tertiary referral centre in the United Kingdom
... Two specific tools to assess TA disease activity and ex- tent have been validated in adults: ITAS2010 and DEI. Tak [17,18]. These tools were derived from the BVAS, but with particular emphasis on cardiovascular ...
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Platelet/lymphocyte ratio and mean platelet volume in patients with granulomatosis with polyangiitis
... Demographic, clinical and laboratory data were retrieved from medical records. Disease activity was assessed with Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score for WG vasculitis (BVAS/WG) [14]. Blood ...
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High mobility group box 1 contributes to anti myeloperoxidase antibody induced glomerular endothelial cell injury through a moesin dependent route
... ANCA-associated vasculitis; ANCA: Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody; BVAS: Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score; ECM: Endothelial cell basal medium; EGPA: Eosinophilic granulomatosis with ...
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Long term outcome of patients with ANCA associated vasculitis treated with plasma exchange: a retrospective, single centre study
... active vasculitis, was the most common cause of death, which is consistent with previous reports [18], suggesting that our current treat- ment strategies are efficacious but may be too aggressive in some ...
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Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis: Experiences in Korean Patients
... A considerable number of clinical features and pathogenic mechanisms of EGPA, HES and IgG4-RD overlap in that they are regulated by Th2 cell-mediated immune response. More- over, EGPA belongs to small vessel ...
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Cutaneous vasculitis: An etiological and clinicopathological study
... systemic vasculitis such as Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN), Wegener’s granulomatosis (WG), Churg Strauss syndrome (CSS) or secondary to drugs, infections or systemic diseases such as connective tissue disease (CTD) ...
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Vol 24, No 1 (2014)
... Cutaneous vasculitis is a poorly understood entity due to its protean clinical manifestation and its overlap with various infections, connective tissue disorders and ...cutaneous vasculitis among 30 ...
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CMR in inflammatory vasculitis
... Vasculitis, the inflammation of blood vessels, can produce devastating complications such as blindness, renal failure, aortic rupture and heart failure through a variety of end-organ effects. Noninvasive imaging ...
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Myositis, Vasculitis, Hepatic Dysfunction in Adult-Onset Still's Disease
... leukocytoclastic vasculitis (Figure 2). Markers for vasculitis, plasma von Willebrand factor (vWF) (235% (normal range, 60–170)), and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) ...
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Cerebral rheumatoid vasculitis: a case report
... Vasculitis is a group of chronic inflammatory diseases in which the blood vessel is the target of an immune reac- tion. They can be idiopathic or due to infection, neo- plasm, collagenoses or drugs. Rheumatoid ...
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Clinical Management of Uveitis in Systemic Rheumatic Autoimmune Diseases in Adults
... SLE can involve any region of the eye, with keratoconjunctivitis sicca and RV being the most common manifestations [11]. Different prevalences of SLE in patients with uveitis have been reported, ranging from 0.1 to 4.8% ...
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Low immunoglobulin levels increase the risk of severe hypogammaglobulinemia in granulomatosis with polyangiitis patients receiving rituximab
... Birmingham vasculitis score (BVAS) at baseline, proportion of patients exposed to CYC and type of RTX induction regimen were in- cluded in the PCA of induction ...
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