Jose Luis Merino, Cristina Galeano, Beatriz Espejo, Maite Rivera, Milagros Fernández-Lucas, Silvia Caldés, M Nieves Plana, Marcén Letosa, Jose Luis Teruel, Carlos Quereda, Joaquin Ortuño
BACKGROUND: Pauci-immune vasculitis is a heterogeneous disorder with an unfavourable prognosis. Renal involvement is frequently observed in antineutrophil cytoplasm autoantibody (ANCA)-associated small-vessel vasculitis and is an important cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Renal replacement therapy (RRT) is frequently required. Although better prognosis under dialysis is well known, the long-term follow-up of pauci-immune renal vasculitis with RRT is rarely reported. METHODS: We described 24 patients with pauci-immune vasculitis and requirement of dialysis who were admitted in our institutions from January 1989 to December 2008...
April 2011: Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation