The word “vasculitis” means inflammation of the blood vessels. (“Vasc” refers to blood vessels and “itis” means inflammation.) Vasculitis can be a diagnosis in itself but more often it coexists with ...

Kawasaki disease is one of the most common forms of vasculitis (a condition involving inflammation of blood vessels,) that affect young children. It is not contagious, but it does occasionally occur ...

The European League Against Rheumatism recommendations for the management of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis have been recently published. Unique to recommendation ...

The primary endpoint was the number of relapses (new or reappearing symptom(s) or worsening disease with Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score (BVAS)>0) at month 28 evaluated by an independent ...

The Victory Over Vasculitis group, part of the Vasculitis Foundation’s Arizona Support Group, is shown before the Cupid’s Chase 5K walk on February 8, 2025 in Tempe (Photo courtesy of the Vasculitis ...

Higher relapse rates were associated with c-ANCA/PR3 positivity and granulomatosis with polyangiitis phenotype. In a retrospective study of patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic (ANCA ...

Nearly all (96%) patients with active AAV enrolled in the study achieved remission, with a median time to remission of 77 days. Early glucocorticoid withdrawal is feasible and was well tolerated ...

Objectives: We undertook a systematic literature review as a background to the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for conducting clinical trials in anti-neutrophil cytoplasm ...

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Hernandez, who lives with lupus and palmar plantar pustular psoriasis, is retiring from the main stage to focus on her health. She spoke to Kim Knight about her pinup journey ahead of an ...

A 62-year-old Chinese woman presented to the hospital for help with generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) and acrodermatitis continua of Hallopeau (ACH). While conventional treatments failed to achieve ...