Epidemiology of ANCA-associated Vasculitis

Oct 1, 2017 by in RHEUMATOLOGY Comments Off on Epidemiology of ANCA-associated Vasculitis

The epidemiology of the antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitides (AAV), comprising Wegener’s granulomatosis, microscopic polyangiitis, and Churg-Strauss syndrome, poses considerable challenges to epidemiologists. These challenges include the difficulty of defining…

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The History of ANCA-associated Vasculitis

Oct 1, 2017 by in RHEUMATOLOGY Comments Off on The History of ANCA-associated Vasculitis

An essential early step toward understanding vasculitis was recognition in 1948 of the differences between the small artery disease of polyarteritis, essentially sparing the glomerulus and lungs, and disease of…

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