Post by: Namrata Parikh. Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a group of autoimmune disorders whose hallmark is inflammation of small blood vessels throughout the body, producing a myriad of manifestations. AAV had once been considered to…
Anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA) was first described in 1982 in a case of segmental necrotizing glomerulonephritis (Fig. 1). The first international ANCA workshop in 1989 delineated a standard immunofluorescence technique to test for ANCA in kidney biopsy specimen….
As a medical student, I encountered two cases of pulmonary renal syndrome within a few months of each other. In both cases, both anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) and anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibodies were identified (the so called…
