Abstracts tagged "respiratory disease and vasculitis"

Abstract Number: 1938 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Bronchiectasis Are Highly Prevalent in Anti-MPO ANCA-Associated Vasculitis and Associate with a Distinct Disease Phenotype
Antoine Néel¹, Alexandra Espitia¹, Pierre Paul Arrigoni², Christelle Volteau³, Agathe Masseau¹, Marie Rimbert⁴, Christian Agard¹, Fadi Fakhouri⁵, Renan Liberge² and Mohamed Hamidou⁶, ¹Internal Medicine Department, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France, ²Radiology Department, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France, ³Clinical Research Department, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France, ⁴Immunology Laboratory, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France, ⁵Nephrology Department, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France, ⁶Internal Medicine Department, Internal Medicine Department, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France
Background/Purpose: To assess the prevalence of bronchiectasis in a western cohort of ANCA positive GPA or MPA and its correlations with disease phenotype and outcome.…