How would you approach a rising PR3 in a patient with limited GPA who is currently asymptomatic on methotrexate?

Topics: Rheumatology • Vasculitis

Would you obtain imaging? If so, what type of imaging?

Answer from: at Academic Institution

This is an important question because ANCA testing is frequently used in the monitoring of disease activity in AAV. Unfortunately, ANCA is a much better diagnostic test than a disease activity biomarker. Multiple studies have looked at the utility of ANCA in monitoring disease activity finding that ...

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at Arthritis Clinic of Central Texas
Agreed. One more caveat: If this PR3 became positi...

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