drug toxicity and vasculitis Archives

Abstract Number: 1939 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Immunologic, Clinical and Demographic Correlates in 51 Cocaine Users with Serum Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies
Grant Hughes¹ and Meredith Barnes², ¹University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Exposure to illicit cocaine and its frequent adulterant, levamisole, is associated with the development of serum anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (ANCA) and a variety of…
Abstract Number: 208 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Neutrophil-Mediated Mechanisms of Drug-Induced Autoimmunity
Jorge Irizarry-Caro¹, Carmelo Carmona-Rivera¹, Elaine Novakovich¹, Venkataraman Subramaniam², Paul Thompson³, Mariana J. Kaplan⁴ and Peter C. Grayson⁵, ¹National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, MD, ²Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, ³University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, ⁴Systemic Autoimmunity Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁵National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Certain medications are known to induce autoimmune disease in humans, triggering clinical features and autoantibody profiles that mirror idiopathic systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and/or…
Abstract Number: 1085 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Levamisole Triggers Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Formation through Muscarinic Receptors in Patients with Drug-Induced Vasculitis
Peter C. Grayson¹, Carmelo Carmona-Rivera², Meryl Waldman³, Karran Phillips⁴, Venkataraman Subramaniam⁵, Paul Thompson⁶, Jonathan D. Graf⁷ and Mariana J. Kaplan¹, ¹National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²Systemic Autoimmunity Branch/ NIAMS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ³NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁴NIDA, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, ⁶Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Masshachussetts, Worcester, MA, ⁷Rosalind Russell / Ephraim P. Engleman Rheumatology Research Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Levamisole, an anti-helminth drug, has been implicated in cases of drug-induced autoimmunity in humans exposed to adulterated cocaine. Clinical manifestations of levamisole-induced autoimmunity include…
Abstract Number: 2776 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Drug-Associated Cutaneous Vasculitis: Study of 239 Patients from a Single Referral Center
Montserrat Santos-Gómez¹, Francisco Ortiz Sanjuan¹, Ricardo Blanco¹, Jose L. Hernández², Vanesa Calvo-Río¹, Javier Loricera¹, Carmen Gonzalez-Vela³, Trinitario Pina Murcia⁴, Hector Fernandez-Llaca⁵, Susana Armesto⁵, Victor Martínez-Taboada¹, Javier Rueda-Gotor¹, Leyre Riancho-Zarrabeitia¹ and Miguel A. González-Gay¹, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL. Santander. Spain, Santander, Spain, ²Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL. Santander. Spain, Santander, Spain, ³Pathology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL. Santander. Spain, Santander, Spain, ⁴Epidemiology, Genetics and Atherosclerosis Research Group on Systemic Inflammatory Diseases, Rheumatology Division, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁵Dermatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL. Santander. Spain, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose The 2012 International Chapel Hill Consensus Conference on the Nomenclature of Vasculitides defined drug-associated immune complex vasculitis as a distinct entity included within the…
Abstract Number: 2186 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Clinical and Immunologic Correlates in Cocaine Users with Serum Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies
Christian Lood and Grant C. Hughes, Medicine/Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Illicit cocaine use is associated with the development of serum anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (ANCA) and a variety of clinical manifestations. However, the mechanisms linking…

Abstracts tagged "drug toxicity and vasculitis"

Immunologic, Clinical and Demographic Correlates in 51 Cocaine Users with Serum Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies

Neutrophil-Mediated Mechanisms of Drug-Induced Autoimmunity

Levamisole Triggers Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Formation through Muscarinic Receptors in Patients with Drug-Induced Vasculitis

Drug-Associated Cutaneous Vasculitis: Study of 239 Patients from a Single Referral Center

Clinical and Immunologic Correlates in Cocaine Users with Serum Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies