More recently, Keogh and co-workers 31 reported on an open label trial of 10 patients with refractory Wegener's granulomatosis treated with steroids and rituximab only. Seven had renal involvement ...

such as rheumatoid arthritis or Wegener's granulomatosis. Although uncommon, scleritis is often extremely painful, can lead to vision-threatening complications (and involvement of other ocular ...

Aims To describe and compare clinical features, complications and outcomes in patients with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA)-associated scleritis with those seen in idiopathic and other ...

Methods The authors included 46 consecutive patients with CSS (24 with active and 22 with quiescent disease), 26 with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA, Wegener's), 25 with atopic asthma and 20 ...

This search was performed using the PubMed database with keywords such as “ANCA-associated vasculitis,” “polyangiitis,” “granulomatosis,” “Wegener’s granulomatosis,” “granulomatosis with polyangiitis, ...

On PubMed and Cochrane Library, we used the terms ‘ANCA’ or ‘antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody’ or ‘MPA’ or ‘microscopic polyangiitis’ or ‘GPA’ or ‘granulomatosis with polyangiitis’ or ‘Wegener’s ...

Medical treatment is initially based upon the use of corticosteroids to treat the inflammatory process. Ordinarily, this is given in the form of high-dose prednisone or equivalent steroids ...

Recent studies have highlighted the functional capacity of neutrophils as powerful mediators of tissue inflammation. Granule-packaged proteases and reactive oxygen intermediates, which are ...

Most often diagnosed in middle-aged adults, granulomatosis with polyangiitis is rarely seen in children. Its cause is unknown. Some people with GPA may develop small nodules, especially around blood ...

The Danish landscape artist Lili Elvenes (1882-1931), born Einar Wegener and better known as Lili Elbe, and her spouse, the Art Deco portrait artist Gerda Wegener (1886-1940), born Gerda Gottlieb.

Olfactory loss accompanies at least 139 neurological, somatic, and congenital/hereditary conditions. This observation leads to the question of whether these associations are correlations or whether ...

These guidelines have been developed at the request of the Standards of Care Committee of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and with the agreement of the Royal College of Radiologists and the British ...