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What is your approach for disease activity monitoring in patients with sarcoidosis?

What is your preferred regimen for remission induction and maintenance in EGPA with cardiac involvement?

How do you approach patients with ANCA vasculitis who had partial response, but continue to have disease activity on q 6 month maintenance rituximab and remain on steroids?

Would you change rituximab maintenance dose or schedule?

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How do you choose between oral and IV cyclophosphamide for the treatment of ANCA-associated vasculitis?

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Are there AAV patients for whom you would consider combination therapy with cyclophosphamide and rituximab?

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What is considered an adequate treatment period to assess response of AAV induction therapy with rituximab or cyclophosphamide?

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Which ANCA vasculitis patients are better candidates for cyclophosphamide rather than rituximab?

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Is there a role for monitoring serum ANCAs to assess ANCA associated vasculitis disease activity?

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How does your treatment algorithm differ for drug-induced ANCA vasculitis compared to non drug-induced ANCA vasculitis in cases with severe/organ-threatening manifestations?

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Are there certain subsets of ANCA vasculitis patients for whom you would consider life long maintenance therapy?

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What clinical factors do you use to determine timing of on-demand dosing of rituximab in ANCA vasculitis maintenance therapy?

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Do you recommend on-demand versus fixed-schedule dosing for rituximab maintenance in ANCA vasculitis?

If you use both, how do you decide which to use for a particular patient?

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Is there a subset of ANCA vasculitis patients for which you would try plasma exchange?

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Papers discussed in this category

The New England journal of medicine, 2010-07-15

Rituximab versus cyclophosphamide in ANCA-associated renal vasculitis.

Medicine (Baltimore),

The Five-Factor Score revisited: assessment of prognoses of systemic necrotizing vasculitides based on the French Vasculitis Study Group (FVSG) cohort.

The New England journal of medicine, 2010-07-15

Rituximab versus cyclophosphamide for ANCA-associated vasculitis.

Ann. Rheum. Dis., 2018 Apr 25

Comparison of individually tailored versus fixed-schedule rituximab regimen to maintain ANCA-associated vasculitis remission: results of a multicentre, randomised controlled, phase III trial (MAINRITSAN2).

Ann. Rheum. Dis., 2017 May 25

Randomised controlled trial of prolonged treatment in the remission phase of ANCA-associated vasculitis.

Ann. Rheum. Dis., 2018 May 03

Long-term efficacy of remission-maintenance regimens for ANCA-associated vasculitides.

Kidney international reports, 2018-03

Combination Therapy With Rituximab and Cyclophosphamide for Remission Induction in ANCA Vasculitis.

N Engl J Med, 2020 Feb 13

Plasma Exchange and Glucocorticoids in Severe ANCA-Associated Vasculitis.

Rheumatology (Oxford),

A novel glucocorticoid-free maintenance regimen for anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibody-associated vasculitis.

Ann Intern Med,

Pulse versus daily oral cyclophosphamide for induction of remission in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis: a randomized trial.

Ann Rheum Dis, 2011 Nov 29

Pulse versus daily oral cyclophosphamide for induction of remission in ANCA-associated vasculitis: long-term follow-up.

Respir Med, 2012 Apr 09

The treatment of pulmonary sarcoidosis.

Am J Respir Crit Care Med,

Statement on sarcoidosis. Joint Statement of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the World Association of Sarcoidosis and Other Granulomatous Disorders (WASOG) adopted by the ATS Board of Directors and by the ERS Executive Committee, February 1999.

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