Rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis: Early treatment is a must

G Moroni, C Ponticelli - Autoimmunity reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
The term crescentic glomerulonephritis (GN) refers to a pathologic condition characterized
by extracapillary proliferation in> 50% of glomeruli. Clinically crescentic GN is characterized …

[HTML][HTML] Association of the Charlson comorbidity index with renal outcome and all-cause mortality in antineutrophil cytoplasmatic antibody-associated vasculitis

S Ofer-Shiber, Y Molad - Medicine, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Association of the Charlson Comorbidity Index with Renal Out... : Medicine Association of the
Charlson Comorbidity Index with Renal Outcome and All-Cause Mortality in Antineutrophil …

Pachymeningitis and Aortitis in a Patient With Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody–Associated Vasculitis

T Nguyen, F Vandergheynst - Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2014 - mayoclinicproceedings.org
A64-year-old woman presented with cervical and shoulder pain with elevated C-reactive
protein. The workup revealed an antimyeloperoxidase antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody …

Applications of FDG-PET/CT in assessment of vascular infection and inflammation

S Gholami, S Fardin, S Houshmand… - Current Molecular …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Cardiovascular diseases are generally synonymous with atherosclerosis and cardiac events
from occluded vessels, although a multitude of other clinically significant diseases with …

Widespread vascular inflammation in a patient with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis as detected by positron emission tomography

SP Salomäki, J Kemppainen, H Aho… - European journal of …, 2014 - Springer
A 47-year-old man had fever, fatigue, abdominal pain, and claudication due to antineutrophil
cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis. Whole-body [18 F] FDG PET/CT scan …