The epidemiology of primary systemic vasculitides involving small vessels in Crete (southern Greece): A comparison of older versus younger adult patients

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 409-415

  Panagiotakis, Symeon H ^a   Perysinakis, Garyfalia S ^b   Kritikos, Heraklis ^a   Vassilopoulos, Dimitrios ^c   Vrentzos, Georgios ^a   Linardakis, Michalis ^d   Bertsias, George ^a   Glaser, Karen ^e   Daphnis, Eugenios ^f   Boumpas, Dimitrios T ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b General Hospital of Rethymnon   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL GREECE   (Greece)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f Nephrology Department

^g UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

ANCA associated vasculitis; Henoch Sch nlein purpura; Microscopic polyangiitis; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREECE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VASCULITIS; SMALL VESSEL VASCULITIS; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651146816     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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