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General Internal Medicine
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Rheumatology
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Vasculitis
How do you interpret a negative ANCA and a low positive PR3?
Could this be false positive?
Related Questions
How soon after starting treatment would you repeat imaging in patients with Takayasu to monitor response and ensure you have the correct diagnosis?
How would you interpret the presence of both high titer anti-PR3 and anti-MPO antibodies in a pANCA positive patient with evidence of small vessel vasculitis?
How soon after starting treatment for Takayasu arteritis do you decide on the need for any vascular interventions to manage chronic damage?
How would you approach management of a patient with classic GCA symptoms, elevated ESR and improvement with steroids, but negative temporal artery biopsy and CTA imaging without evidence of vasculitis?
Do you send anti-human neutrophil elastase antibodies when you suspect levamisole-induced ANCA vasculitis?
How would you approach the workup and management of a young patient with recurrent biannual non-scarring oral ulcers and new onset neurologic symptoms with associated CNS white matter lesions concerning for Behcet’s?
How would you manage a patient with Takayasu arteritis controlled on TNFi who develops erythema nodosum that is only partially responsive to NSAIDs?
How would you approach the treatment for patients with renal-limited ANCA vasculitis who have persistent proteinuria, hematuria, and ANCA titers and have completed a steroid taper and received three doses of rituximab?
How do you determine which patients with ANCA associated vasculitis may be good candidates for reduced dose glucocorticoid tapering?
How would you manage a patient on tocilizumab for recently diagnosed severe GCA who developed a bowel obstruction several weeks after the first dose of Tocilizumab?
