Abstracts tagged "ANCA"

Abstract Number: 2379 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Successful Treatment of Churg-Strauss Syndrome with Rituximab
Christin Dubrau¹, Fabian Arndt², Wolfgang L. Gross and Frank Moosig⁴, ¹Departement of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck and Klinikum Bad Bramstedt, Bad Bramstedt, Germany, ²Departement of rheumatology and clinical immunology, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein and Klinikum Bad Bramstedt, Bad Bramstedt, Germany, ³Vasculitis Clinic, Klinikum Bad Bramstedt & University Hospital of Schleswig Holstein, Bad Bramstedt, Germany
Background/Purpose: Rituximab has recently been shown to be equipotent to cyclophosphamide for induction of remission in generalized ANCA-associated vasculitis. A substantial number of observational pro-…