Being underweight at diagnosis, with a low body mass index (BMI), is associated with a significantly greater risk…
Articles by Aisha I Abdullah PhD
Nucala (mepolizumab) is effective and safe in combination with corticosteroids to treat eosinophilic…
In patients with systemic vasculitis like ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV), glucocorticoid use and respiratory disease are linked with…
The Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) has established alternative consensus treatment…
People with ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) who receive mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) as a remission induction therapy…
The disease-causing autoantibodies are sometimes present long before the onset of ANCA-associated vasculitis…
Measuring liver scarring at diagnosis, using the FIB-5 liver fibrosis index, can help predict kidney failure in people with the two…
A woman was potentially reinfected with SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — while on immunosuppressive therapy…
In some cases, infections may trigger the development of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) with antibodies against the…
A higher ratio of disease-inducing neutrophils to lymphocytes at diagnosis may help predict severe infections and mortality in…