Pulmonology

Glomerulonephritis

Questions discussed in this category

Are there patients with granulomatosis with polyangiitis on maintenance rituximab therapy for whom you do not co-administer glucocorticoid therapy?

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Do you extend the duration of maintenance therapy past 24 months for patients with ANCA glomerulonephritis who have multiple organ involvement?

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For patients with suspected complement-mediated TMA, are there specific clinical or laboratory parameters that can help guide the decision for starting empirical treatment (e.g., eculizumab) while awaiting the results of complement testing?

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What else do you consider in the differential diagnosis for pulmonary-renal syndromes if there is low clinical and serologic evidence of AAV, Goodpasture's or other rheumatologic disease (SLE, RA, APS, Scleroderma)?

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Papers discussed in this category

Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2024 Jan 11

Rituximab as maintenance therapy for ANCA-associated vasculitides: pooled analysis and long-term outcome of 277 patients included in the MAINRITSAN trials.

Journal of clinical rheumatology : practical reports on rheumatic & musculoskeletal diseases, 2012-08

Cyclophosphamide without corticosteroids for treatment of severe systemic necrotizing vasculitis.

Current medical research and opinion, 2016-12

Corticosteroids: the knee jerk response.

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