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 ...

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 ...

Most children with ANCA-associated vasculitis had active kidney disease and impaired renal function at diagnosis. Those with normal or minimal kidney impairment had good chance of recovery.

We learned that abatacept did not reduce the risk of relapse in ANCA-associated vasculitis ... involvement such as ENT involvement, general symptoms, nervous system involvement, skin, eyes ...