Abstracts tagged "opportunistic infections and vasculitis"

Abstract Number: 2737 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Opportunistic Infections in Medium and Small-Sized Vessel Vasculitis: Based on a Retrospectivestudy on 108 Patients
Raphaele Mestiri¹, Lafarge Antoine², Jean-Jacques Tudesq³, Marc Pineton de Chambrun⁴, Melanie Roriz⁵, Stéphane Bally⁶, Laurent Alric⁷, Damien Sène⁸, Thomas Quémeneur⁹, Cécile-Audrey Durel¹⁰, Brigitte Gilson¹¹, Alice Berezne¹², Anne-Marie Ruppert¹³, Raphaele Seror¹⁴, Philippe Guilpain¹⁵, Xavier Puéchal¹⁶, Luc Mouthon¹⁷, Loïc Guillevin¹⁶ and Benjamin Terrier¹⁸, ¹Internal Medicine, Cochin hospital, Paris, France, ²Medecine Interne, National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Paris Cochin, France, Paris, France, ³Internal Medicine, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ⁴Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, ⁵Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France, ⁶Nephrology, CH Chambery, Chambery, France, ⁷Internal Medicine, CHU Toulouse, Toulouse, France, ⁸Lariboisière Hospital, Paris Diderot University, Paris, France, ⁹Department of Internal Medicine, CH of Valenciennes, France, Valenciennes, France, ¹⁰Internal Medicine, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, lyon, France, ¹¹Internal Medicine, CH Verdun, Verdun, France, ¹²Internal Medicine, CH Annecy, Annecy, France, ¹³Pulmonology, Tenon hospital, Paris, France, ¹⁴Hopitaux Universitaires Paris Sud, Kremlin Bicetre, France, Rheumatology, Université Paris Sud, Le Kremlin Bicetre, France, ¹⁵Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ¹⁶Department of Internal Medicine, INSERM Unité 1016, Centre de Référence pour les Maladies Auto-immunes Rares, Hôpital Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France, ¹⁷Department of Internal Medicine, INSERM Unité 1016, Centre de Référence pour les Maladies Auto-immunes Rares, National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Paris Cochin, France, Paris, France, ¹⁸Centre de Référence des Maladies Auto-immunes et Systémiques Rares, Vascularites Nécrosantes et Sclérodermie Systémique, Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Cochin, APHP, INSERM U1016, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Overall survival has been markedly improved during the last decades in systemic vasculitis. In contrast, the use of immunosuppressive agents led to an increased…