Abstracts tagged "glomerulonephritis and vasculitis"

Abstract Number: 826 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Does Anti-Glomerular Basement (anti-GBM) Antibody Positivity Correlate with Relapse in Patients with Anti-GBM Disease?
Nicole Droz¹, Alexis Katz², John Sedor³ and Rula A Hajj-Ali^1,4, ¹Rheumatology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, ²Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, ³Nephrology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, ⁴Rheumatic and Immunologic Disease, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Anti-GBM disease is characterized by rapidly progressive glomerular nephritis with or without pulmonary hemorrhage. It is usually monophasic in nature and disease severity correlates…
Abstract Number: 861 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
ANCA-Associated Pauci-Immune Glomerulonephritis: ¿Always Pauci-Immune?
Valeria Scaglioni¹, Marina Scolnik¹, Luis J. Catoggio¹, Carlos Federico Varela², Gustavo Greloni², Silvia Christiansen³ and Enrique R. Soriano⁴, ¹Rheumatology Unit, Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, and Fundacion PM Catoggio, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Nephrology Service. Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³Pathology Service. Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁴Internal Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, and Fundacion PM Catoggio, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Background/Purpose: Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated glomerulonephritis (GN) is considered a “pauci-immune” disease, characterized by absent or mild glomerular tuft staining for immunoglobulin and/or complement. However,…
Abstract Number: 1783 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Importance of Histopathological Classification of ANCA-Associated Glomerulonephritis in Renal Function and Renal Survival
Valeria Scaglioni¹, Marina Scolnik¹, Luis J. Catoggio¹, Carlos Federico Varela², Gustavo Greloni², Silvia Christiansen³ and Enrique R. Soriano¹, ¹Rheumatology Unit, Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, and Fundacion PM Catoggio, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Nephrology Service. Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³Pathology Service. Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Background/Purpose : Histological changes in renal biopsy are the gold standard for establishing the diagnosis of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated glomerulonephritis (GN). In 2010 a…
Abstract Number: 2397 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Urinary Biomarkers in Vasculitis Associated with Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies
Jason G. Lieberthal¹, David Cuthbertson², Simon Carette³, Gary S. Hoffman⁴, Nader A. Khalidi⁵, Curry L. Koening⁶, Carol A. Langford⁷, Kathleen Maksimowicz-McKinnon⁸, Philip Seo⁹, Ulrich Specks¹⁰, Steven R. Ytterberg¹¹, Peter A. Merkel¹² and Paul A. Monach¹³, ¹Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²Department of Biostatistics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ³Div of Rheum/E1-422, UHN/MSH, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Rheumatic & Immunologic Dis, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁵Internal Medicine/Rheumatology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁶Internal Medicine, Salt Lake City Veterans Administration, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁷Center for Vasculitis Care and Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁸Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁹Rheumatology Division, Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁰Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹¹Rheumatology Division, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ¹³Rheumatology, Boston University, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Glomerulonephritis is common in ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV), but non-invasive tools for early detection of renal involvement suffer from low sensitivity (red blood cell…