Abstracts tagged "corticosteroids and vasculitis"

Abstract Number: 1551 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: Description of the First 52 Adult Patients Enrolled in the French COVAC’ Cohort
Hubert de Boysson¹, Mathieu Zuber², Olivier Naggara³, Jean-Philippe Neau⁴, Françoise Gray⁵, Marie-Germaine Bousser⁶, Isabelle Crassard⁶, Emmanuel Touze⁷, Pierre-Olivier Couraud⁸, Philippe Kerschen⁹, Catherine Oppenheim³, Olivier Detante¹⁰, Anthony Faivre¹¹, Nicolas Gaillard¹², Caroline Arquizan¹³, Boris Bienvenu¹⁴, Antoine Neel¹⁵, Loic Guillevin¹⁶, Christian Pagnoux¹⁷ and French Vasculitis Study Group and NeuroVascular Society¹⁸, ¹Division of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Cochin, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France, ²Department of Neurology, Groupe Hospitalier Saint-Joseph, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France, ³Department of Neuroradiology, Hôpital Sainte-Anne, Paris, France, ⁴Department of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire La Milétrie, Poitiers, France, ⁵Department of Pathology, APHP Hôpital Lariboisière, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France, ⁶Department of Neurology, APHP Hôpital Lariboisière, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France, ⁷Department of Neurology, Hôpital Sainte-Anne, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France, ⁸Department of Cellular Biology, Institut Cochin, Paris, France, ⁹Department of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Henri Mondor, Créteil, France, ¹⁰Department of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, ¹¹Department of Neurology, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Saint-Anne, Toulon, France, ¹²Department of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier de Perpignan, Perpignan, France, ¹³Department of Neurology, Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ¹⁴Division of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Caen, Côte de Nacre, Caen, France, Caen, France, ¹⁵Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes, Nantes, France, ¹⁶Internal Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Cochin, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France, ¹⁷Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁸Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS) is rare and only 1 pediatric and 1 adult large cohorts including >30 PACNS patients have…