Xavier Bossuyt, Jan-Willem Cohen Tervaert, Yoshihiro Arimura, Daniel Blockmans, Luis Felipe Flores-Suárez, Loïc Guillevin, Bernhard Hellmich, David Jayne, J Charles Jennette, Cees G M Kallenberg, Sergey Moiseev, Pavel Novikov, Antonella Radice, Judith Anne Savige, Renato Alberto Sinico, Ulrich Specks, Pieter van Paassen, Ming-Hui Zhao, Niels Rasmussen, Jan Damoiseaux, Elena Csernok
Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) are valuable laboratory markers used for the diagnosis of well-defined types of small-vessel vasculitis, including granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA). According to the 1999 international consensus on ANCA testing, indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) should be used to screen for ANCAs, and samples containing ANCAs should then be tested by immunoassays for proteinase 3 (PR3)-ANCAs and myeloperoxidase (MPO)-ANCAs. The distinction between PR3-ANCAs and MPO-ANCAs has important clinical and pathogenic implications...
November 2017: Nature Reviews. Rheumatology