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Some people with ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) have elevated biomarkers suggesting activation of the immune system’s complement cascade, which is known to contribute to AAV, even when they’re in disease remission, a study showed. While these biomarkers did not appear to be associated with an increased risk of future disease…

The most common neurological symptoms of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) among patients in a single center in Columbia — regardless of disease type — were headache and objective signs of damage to nerves outside the brain and spinal cord, a study showed. That said, the researchers found a vast array…

In adults with ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV), the amount of TWEAK protein in urine was about 50% as high when their disease was active as after six months of treatment, making it a useful biomarker for tracking disease activity, according to a new study from Sweden. The study further found…

Vertex Pharmaceuticals has signed a license agreement with Ono Pharmaceutical to develop and market povetacicept — a B-cell-targeting candidate for treating ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) and other autoimmune diseases driven by self-reactive antibodies and marked by signs or symptoms of kidney involvement — in Japan and South Korea.

Updated treatment guidelines from the British Society for Rheumatology favor rituximab over cyclophosphamide for active, relapsing ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV), and set a standard maintenance treatment period of about 2-4 years after the disease has entered remission, or is determined to be well controlled. These recommendations are part of…

The selective immunosuppressive medication abatacept failed to significantly prevent treatment failure relative to a placebo in people with relapsing, non-severe granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) taking part in a Phase 3 clinical trial, new data show. In addition to failing to meet this main goal of the study — called…

Up to two years of treatment with AstraZeneca’s Fasenra (benralizumab) helped adults with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) that’s difficult to treat achieve and maintain disease remission, while reducing or eliminating the need for oral corticosteroids. That’s according to combined data from the completed head-to-head portion and the…

ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) therapy Tavneos (avacopan) is at least as effective as the glucocorticoid prednisone at inducing disease remission, reducing relapse rates, and improving kidney function and quality of life in patients with kidney involvement at treatment start. That’s according to new subgroup analyses from the Phase…

Facial palsy, or weakness of the facial muscles, is associated with a nearly 10 times higher risk of hearing loss with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), a type of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV), a single-center study suggests. Older age, along with ear or eye involvement, were also significant risk factors for…

Treatments for ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) have improved over time, but many patients still develop permanent organ damage, even though the extent of it has been less severe in recent years, a study in Turkey suggests. Mortality rates have remained largely similar over the years, with death more likely among…