ANCAÂ vasculitis may trigger inflammation in large blood vessels as well as the small ones the disease is associated with, Japanese…
Magdalena Kegel
Magdalena is a writer with a passion for bridging the gap between the people performing research, and those who want or need to understand it. She writes about medical science and drug discovery. She holds an MS in Pharmaceutical Bioscience and a PhD — spanning the fields of psychiatry, immunology, and neuropharmacology — from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
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Articles by Magdalena Kegel
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted for review ChemoCentryx’s application to approve Avacopan (CCX168) as a treatment…
A clinical trial will assess whether low-dose glucocorticoids and Rituxan (rituximab) may be used as a safer way to treat…
While the treatment of ANCA-associated vasculitis has taken strides away from highly toxic immunosuppressants to include an array of approaches…
Maintenance Treatment After Rituxan for ANCA-associated Vasculitis Not Needed, Researchers Argue
Certain types of patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis do not require maintenance therapy if treated with a specific Rituxan (rituximab) approach,…
People with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)-associated vasculitis have a lesser chance of relapse if they continue with maintenance treatment for…
Nucala Triggered Remission in Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis, But Not All Benefit
Nucala (mepolizumab) effectively induced remission in about half of patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) that relapsed…