#PARADISEProject Meeting at #EUVAS Vasculitis Course – Trieste, Italy
Date: 23 May 2025
Time: 16:45
Location: Savoia Excelsior Palace, Room 3
#EUVAS #Firenze 🇮🇹 Plasma exchange in adults for IgA with crescents? Or maybe Budesonide? Rituximab? Opinions differ & evidence limited/lacking....
GCA if temporal artery biopsy ask pathologist to look for fibrinoid necrosis. If present diagnosis NOT GCA and need to check ANCA - think systemic vasculitis with temporal artery involvement...#vasculitiswisdom #EUVAS #Firenze 🇮🇹
Tocilizumab in large vessel #vasculitis..Magic bullet? Steroid sparing. knocks out CRP (&maybe ESR) as biomarker 😰NICE approve use for 1 year...is that too short? MTX before stopping TCA. Start MTX & TCA together? Should we check IL6 levels? No one knows 😮 #EUVAS #Firenze 🇮🇹
Benjamin Terrier, Paris. EGPA: differs according to ANCA status. 2 phenotypes vasculitis & eosinophillic. ANCA negative poorer outcome probably due to increased cardiac involvement slower diagnosis and less IS #EUVAS 🇮🇹 #vasculitis #palazzocorsini
Other considerations for ANCA belimumab no evidence thus far but maybe in combination with rituximab; rituximab and cyclophosphamide in combination; anti IL5 mepolizumab #EUVAS 🇮🇹
ANCA & rituximab? How long for? Who knows? If carry on for two years and then stop worth thinking about measuring B cells at 1 year...if B cells back relapse not inevitable but more likely #EUVAS #firenze #palazzocorsini 🇮🇹
David Jayne New Rx in AAV - complement inhibition? Avacopan. Reduces steroid burden reduces proteinuria improves quality of life (poss effect of less steroid) #EUVAS 🇮🇹@AnnetteBruchfe1...
Ingeborg Bajema asks can we predict outcome effectively in AAV? Not yet but it’s coming🙏🏽...renal biopsy gives useful info & perhaps in combo with geno & phenotype can classify & predict better +/- Rx differently #EUVAS #palazzocorsini 🇮🇹
Ken Smith, Cambridge gives interesting overview of genetics in vasculitis...MPO +ve and -ve disease v different genetics...
implications for treatment
#EUVAS #Firenze #palazzocorsini #prettyroom 😊🇮🇹