Use of avacopan with a lower dose of glucocorticoids leads to fewer total and serious side effects, as well as infections.

In 2019, the age-adjusted prevalence for vasculitis per 1,000,000 Alaska Native and American Indian adults was 752 (95% CI, 581-959). The prevalence of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated ...

However, some people with RA will develop skin rashes. These can occur due to hives, vasculitis, and many other causes. RA is a chronic autoimmune disease that can affect many other parts or ...

Avacopan was safe and effective among patients with respiratory tract manifestations of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis. Researchers performed a post hoc analysis of the ...

All patients had non-infectious retinal vasculitis and at least 1 year of follow-up. Results Although occlusive vasculitis was rare, retinal neovascularisation occurred much more commonly in the ...

Nellie Zygiel of Fairhaven was diagnosed over a decade ago with a rare disease, GPA Vasculitis. She has faced other health challenges over her young life. Vasculitis can affect the kidneys ...

Thyroid disease can sometimes cause repeated bouts of an itchy skin rash known as hives. In fact, up to 30% of people with chronic hives (also known as chronic urticaria) have an underlying autoimmune ...

The final months of 2024 saw Nkarta launch two trials of NKX019: in lupus nephritis as well as in in systemic sclerosis, idiopathic inflammatory myopathy and ANCA-associated vasculitis.

Anaphylaxis is a life-threatening allergic reaction that can be triggered by exposure to many different substances (allergens). The most common allergies that can produce anaphylaxis are to drugs, ...

Spinal cord involvement is infrequently reported in primary central nervous system vasculitis (PCNSV). This study describes the clinical findings, therapeutic responses, and outcomes of spinal cord ...

Leukocytoclastic vasculitis is a hypersensitivity reaction involving immune complex deposition in dermal capillaries and venules. We report a case of a 34-year-old female patient with left-sided ...

Immunoglobin A (IgA) vasculitis (IgAV), formerly called the Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP), is a small vessel vasculitis, characterized by IgA1-dominant immune deposition at diseased vessel walls.