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Erschienen in: Current Rheumatology Reports 9/2017

01.09.2017 | Vasculitis (L Espinoza, Section Editor)

Pulmonary Involvement in Systemic Vasculitis

verfasst von: Luis Felipe Flores-Suárez, Marco A. Alba, Heidegger Mateos-Toledo, Natllely Ruiz

Erschienen in: Current Rheumatology Reports | Ausgabe 9/2017

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Abstract

Purpose of Review

The purpose of this study is to describe the most relevant advances concerning lung involvement in the ANCA-associated vasculitides (excluding eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis which may have different disease mechanisms). Focus is on pathophysiology, recent important imagenological procedures, treatment, and outcome.

Recent Findings

Emerging information exists on potential newly investigated diagnostic procedures (v.g. transbronchial cryobiopsies), detailed tomographic abnormalities, the potential favorable role of rituximab and the still uncertain one of plasma exchange in the treatment, and the increasing description of interstitial lung disease. Survival is reduced in case of both, diffuse alveolar hemorrhage and diffuse parenchymal disease.

Summary

There is the need to expand the knowledge concerning better long-term treatment options with specific regimes, and to incorporate other measures regarding integral treatment in patients afflicted with lung involvement these maladies, as the outcome seems adverse in this scenario.
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Metadaten
Titel
Pulmonary Involvement in Systemic Vasculitis
verfasst von
Luis Felipe Flores-Suárez
Marco A. Alba
Heidegger Mateos-Toledo
Natllely Ruiz
Publikationsdatum
01.09.2017
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Current Rheumatology Reports / Ausgabe 9/2017
Print ISSN: 1523-3774
Elektronische ISSN: 1534-6307
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11926-017-0682-4

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