Jumpei Hasegawa, Junichi Hoshino, Akinari Sekine, Noriko Hayami, Tatsuya Suwabe, Keiichi Sumida, Koki Mise, Toshiharu Ueno, Masayuki Yamanouchi, Ryo Hazue, Naoki Sawa, Kenichi Ohashi, Takeshi Fujii, Kenmei Takaichi, Yoshifumi Ubara
BACKGROUND: Antithyroid drugs such as propylthiouracil and methimazole have been reported to cause antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV), but little is known about long-term outcomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We identified AAV patients who underwent renal biopsy and retrospectively assessed their clinical and histological findings. Patients with AAV who had received propylthiouracil or methimazole were defined as having antithyroid drug-associated AAV (ATD-AAV), and the other patients were defined as having primary AAV...
April 12, 2018: Clinical Nephrology