Updates in the treatment of granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis : At a crossroad

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There have been great advances in the management of ANCA associated vasculitis over the past decades. We have gone from an era where the disease was almost universally fatal to trying to prevent long-term side effects of treatment regimens. With the ability to use pulse cyclophosphamide or rituximab as alternates to oral cyclophosphamide for induction of remission, side effects of therapy have been greatly reduced. New approaches have drastically changed our approach to maintenance and we now favor much longer durations of maintenance therapy, as they are more successful in preventing relapse. Steroids have long been the bane of treatment as they are associated with a significant risk of infection and metabolic consequences. We are now in a steroid-sparing and looking ahead to a steroid-free era with new data being published showing lower doses of steroids being equally effective and several ongoing seminal trials looking at agents that could completely replace steroids very early on.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:49

Enthalten in:

Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983) - 49(2020), 3 vom: 28. Okt., Seite 104038

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Garner, Stephanie [VerfasserIn]
Khalidi, Nader [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

4F4X42SYQ6
8N3DW7272P
Adrenal Cortex Hormones
Azathioprine
Cyclophosphamide
Immunosuppressive Agents
Journal Article
MRK240IY2L
Review
Rituximab

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 05.11.2020

Date Revised 05.11.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.lpm.2020.104038

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312120753