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How do you decide when to discontinue immunotherapy for primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS)?

What is your follow-up strategy once you discontinue?
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Neurology · University of Virginia, School of Medicine
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I take a multidisciplinary approach with involvement of my neurobiology and rheumatology colleagues for the immunotherapy. PACNS can be relapsing or remitting. So needs close monitoring with radiologic (MRI and MRA high resolution vessel wall imaging or CTA/MRA with CSF studies 6 months and then 1 y...

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