Clinical characteristics and prognostic risk factors of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitides (AAV).

CONCLUSION: This retrospective study demonstrates that AAV patients with low sC3 level at diagnosis tend to have lower baseline eGFR and poorer survival prognosis than those of the normal sC3 level. Furthermore, the high procalcitonin (PCT), low serum albumin and high lactate dehydrogenase in AVV patients may be predictors of poor prognosis.
PMID: 32717565 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: International Immunopharmacology - July 23, 2020 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Chen Z, Lin L, Yang W, Chen N, Lin Y Tags: Int Immunopharmacol Source Type: research