Abstracts tagged "Churg-Strauss syndrome and vasculitis"

Abstract Number: 760 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Cluster Analysis To Explore Clinical Subclassification Of Eosinophilic Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis (Churg–Strauss)
Thomas Neumann¹, Frank Moosig², Augusto Vaglio³, Jochen Zwerina⁴, Renato Alberto Sinico⁵, Wojciech Szczeklik⁶, Paolo Bottero⁷, Phillip Bremer⁸, Andrea Gioffredi⁹, Barbara Sokolowska⁶, Luca Di Toma⁵, Federica Maritati⁹, Julian Großkreutz¹⁰, Claus Kroegel¹¹, Matthieu Resche-Rigon¹² and Alfred Mahr¹³, ¹Jena University Hospital, Internal Medicine III, Jena, Germany, ²Vasculitis Clinic, Klinikum Bad Bramstedt & University Hospital of Schleswig Holstein, Bad Bramstedt, Germany, ³Unit of Nephrology, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy, ⁴Ludwig Bolzmann institut of osteology at the 4th medical departmen, Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, Austria, ⁵Clinical Immunology Unit and Renal Unit, Department of Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliera Ospedale San Carlo Borromeo, Milan, Italy, ⁶Department of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland, ⁷llergy and Clinical Immunology Unit, Magenta Hospital, Magenta, Italy, ⁸University Hospital Schleswig Holstein and Klinikum Bad Bramstedt, Bad Bramstedt, Germany, ⁹Department of Clinical Medicine, Nephrology and Health Sciences, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, ¹⁰Department of Neurology, Jena University-Hospital, Jena, Germany, ¹¹Jena University Hospital, Internal Medicine I, Jena, Germany, ¹²Biostatistics, Hopital Saint-Louis, Paris, France, ¹³Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Results from descriptive studies of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) suggest distinct clinical subclasses that may be determined by anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) status.…
Abstract Number: 1546 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rhinosinusits and Nasal Polyps in the Diagnosis and Follow up of Patients with Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangitis (ex-Churg Strauss Syndrome)
Chiara Baldini¹, Veronica Seccia², Manuela Latorre³, Paolo Iannicelli², Daniela Martini¹, Francesco Ferro¹, Nicoletta Luciano¹, Antonio Tavoni⁴, Stefano Sellari Franceschini² and Stefano Bombardieri⁵, ¹University of Pisa, Rheumatology Unit, Pisa, Italy, ²Unit of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Pisa, Italy, ³University of Pisa, Pneumology Unit, Pisa, Italy, ⁴University of Pisa, Immunoallergology Unit, Pisa, Italy, ⁵Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Background/Purpose: Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwP) is a common manifestation of granulomatosis with polyangitis (EGPA), and may represent an invalidating feature of the disease,…