What is your approach to checking serum vWF antigen levels in adult patients with CNS vasculitis for monitoring disease activity?

Topics: Rheumatology • Vasculitis • Neurology • Neuro-immunology

Small study in pediatric PACNS have evaluated this as a potential marker (Cellucci et al., PMID 22740622)

Answer from: at Academic Institution

I never have checked them but I am aware of interest in this by the Hamburg group. (Ref) Following disease activity in CNS-V is challenging but reduction/clearing of pleocytosis is important to us. Also now being able to look at serial direct vascular wall imaging is of interest and appears to corre...

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