Other clinical features include: The patient has the following antibodies: P-ANCA positive with perinuclear pattern (anti-myeloperoxidase [MPO]). He is negative for C-ANCA antibodies (serine ...

Patients with AAV who have ECG abnormalities may be at greater risk for cardiovascular and all-cause mortality.

The rationale for the use of rituximab in the treatment of patients with ANCA-associated vasculits is that elimination of CD20 B-cell precursors could lead to transient removal of pathogenic ...

New research has demonstrated that frailty, a measure of biological age, predicts severe infections in older adults with ...

Physicians presented the case of a patient with hypertensive emergency diagnosed as ANCA-associated vasculitis. The presence of a hypertensive emergency may be a sign of ANCA-associated vasculitis.

Older adults with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)–associated vasculitis face a higher risk for end-stage renal disease or mortality and severe infections. However, frailty ...