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How would you approach a patient with incidentally noted infrarenal periaortitis with positive C-ANCA, normal inflammatory markers and no systemic symptoms?

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Rheumatology · Director, Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium
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Based on data we and others have published over the past 20 years, the specificity of testing for ANCA depends on testing for antibodies to the specific antigens proteinase 3 (PR3) and myeloperoxidase (MPO) by ELISA or other newer methods. Immunofluorescence (IF) testing alone for ANCA is not accept...

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