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Peripheral Nerve Society Guideline on the classification, diagnosis, investigation, and immunosuppressive therapy of non-systemic vasculitic neuropathy: executive summary

Journal of the peripheral nervous system : JPNS · 2010

📚 177 citations🎯 RCR 6.18Top 6% NIH🩺 Clinique

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Non‐systemic vasculitic neuropathy (NSVN) is routinely considered in the differential diagnosis of progressive axonal neuropathies, especially those with asymmetric or multifocal features. Diagnostic criteria for vasculitic neuropathy, classification criteria for NSVN, and therapeutic approaches to NSVN are not standardized. The aim of this guideline was to derive recommendations on the classification, diagnosis, investigation, and treatment of NSVN based on the available evidence and, where evidence was not available, expert consensus. Experts on vasculitis, vasculitic neuropathy, and methodology systematically reviewed the literature for articles addressing diagnostic issues concerning vasculitic neuropathy and NSVN as well as treatment of NSVN and the small‐to‐medium vessel primary systemic vasculitides using MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library. The selected articles were analyzed and classified. The group initially reached consensus on a classification of vasculitides associated with neuropathy. Non‐diabetic radiculoplexus neuropathy was incorporated within NSVN. The consensus definition of pathologically definite vasculitic neuropathy required that vessel wall inflammation be accompanied by vascular damage. Diagnostic criteria for pathologically probable vasculitic neuropathy included five predictors of definite vasculitic neuropathy: vascular deposits of IgM, C3, or fibrinogen by direct immunofluorescence; hemosiderin deposits; asymmetric nerve fiber loss; prominent active axonal degeneration; and myofiber necrosis, regeneration, or infarcts in peroneus brevis muscle biopsy (Good Practice Points from class II/III evidence). A case definition of clinically probable vasculitic neuropathy in patients lacking biopsy proof incorporated clinical features typical of vasculitic neuropathy: sensory or sensory‐motor involvement, asymmetric/multifocal pattern, lower‐limb predominance, distal‐predominance, pain, acute relapsing course, and non‐demyelinating electrodiagnostic features (Good Practice Points from class II/III evidence). Proposed exclusionary criteria for NSVN – favoring the alternate diagnosis of systemic vasculitic neuropathy – were clinicopathologic evidence of other‐organ involvement; anti‐neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCAs); cryoglobulins; sedimentation rate ≥100 mm/h; and medical condition/drug predisposing to systemic vasculitis (Good Practice Points supported by class III evidence). Three class III studies on treatment of NSVN were identified, which were insufficient to permit a level C recommendation. Therefore, the group reviewed the literature on treatment of primary small‐to‐medium vessel systemic vasculitides prior to deriving Good Practice Points on treatment of NSVN. Principal treatment recommendations were: (1) corticosteroid (CS) monotherapy for at least 6 months is considered first‐line; (2) combination therapy should be used for rapidly progressive NSVN and patients who progress on CS monotherapy; (3) immunosuppressive options include cyclophosphamide, azathioprine, and methotrexate; (4) cyclophosphamide is indicated for severe neuropathies, generally administered in IV pulses to reduce cumulative dose and side effects; (5) in patients achieving clinical remission with combination therapy, maintenance therapy should be continued for 18–24 months with azathioprine or methotrexate; and (6) clinical trials to address all aspects of treatment are needed.

Evaluation of 16S rRNA gene PCR sensitivity and specificity for diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection: a prospective multicenter cross-sectional study

Journal of clinical microbiology · 2014

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ABSTRACT There is no standard method for the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection (PJI). The contribution of 16S rRNA gene PCR sequencing on a routine basis remains to be defined. We performed a prospective multicenter study to assess the contributions of 16S rRNA gene assays in PJI diagnosis. Over a 2-year period, all patients suspected to have PJIs and a few uninfected patients undergoing primary arthroplasty (control group) were included. Five perioperative samples per patient were collected for culture and 16S rRNA gene PCR sequencing and one for histological examination. Three multicenter quality control assays were performed with both DNA extracts and crushed samples. The diagnosis of PJI was based on clinical, bacteriological, and histological criteria, according to Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines. A molecular diagnosis was modeled on the bacteriological criterion (≥1 positive sample for strict pathogens and ≥2 for commensal skin flora). Molecular data were analyzed according to the diagnosis of PJI. Between December 2010 and March 2012, 264 suspected cases of PJI and 35 control cases were included. PJI was confirmed in 215/264 suspected cases, 192 (89%) with a bacteriological criterion. The PJIs were monomicrobial (163 cases [85%]; staphylococci, n = 108; streptococci, n = 22; Gram-negative bacilli, n = 16; anaerobes, n = 13; others, n = 4) or polymicrobial (29 cases [15%]). The molecular diagnosis was positive in 151/215 confirmed cases of PJI (143 cases with bacteriological PJI documentation and 8 treated cases without bacteriological documentation) and in 2/49 cases without confirmed PJI (sensitivity, 73.3%; specificity, 95.5%). The 16S rRNA gene PCR assay showed a lack of sensitivity in the diagnosis of PJI on a multicenter routine basis.

Interferon-alpha and ribavirin treatment in patients with hepatitis C virus-related systemic vasculitis

Arthritis and rheumatism · 2002

📚 138 citations🎯 RCR 3.97Top 11% NIH

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AbstractObjectiveHepatitis C virus (HCV)–related vasculitis may involve multiple organs, including the skin, kidneys, and nervous system, and may be life‐threatening. Although HCV is increasingly recognized as a cause of systemic vasculitis, limited data are available regarding the optimal treatment of this potentially serious condition. Therefore, we retrospectively analyzed the response to treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis C complicated by systemic vasculitis who had received antiviral therapy with interferon‐α (IFNα) and ribavirin.MethodsThis retrospective study included 27 patients with systemic vasculitis and chronic HCV infection. Each patient had received treatment with IFNα and ribavirin for at least 6 months. The response to antiviral treatment was analyzed by comparing clinical, immunologic, and virologic data at the time of entry and during followup. Clinical response was defined according to the evolution of weight, arthralgia, nervous system, renal system, and cutaneous involvement. The virologic and immunologic responses were defined by the absence of HCV RNA and the absence of cryoglobulinemia, respectively, both 6 months after stopping antiviral therapy and at the end of followup.ResultsPatients received IFNα for a mean ± SD of 20 ± 14 months and ribavirin (at a mean ± SD dosage of 895 ± 250 mg/day) for 14 ± 12 months. Other treatments included low‐dose corticosteroids and plasma exchange. After a mean ± SD followup of 57 ± 29 months, 25 of 27 patients are alive and are being followed up as outpatients. Because of the heterogeneity of anti‐HCV treatments received, the main results were stratified according to patients with 6 months of followup after stopping antiviral treatment (group 1, n = 14) and those who were still undergoing antiviral therapy at the time of analysis (group 2, n = 13). Nine patients in group 1 had a sustained virologic response and were clinical and immunologic complete responders. Four patients in group 1 were virologic nonresponders, and 3 of these patients had partial clinical and immunologic responses. Overall, 10 patients in group 1 had a complete clinical and immunologic response of their vasculitis (all 9 of the sustained virologic responders and 1 of the 5 patients who remained viremic). At the end of followup, 7 patients in group 2 were negative for HCV RNA; 6 were complete clinical responders. Among the other 6 patients in group 2, who had persistent viremia, 4 had a partial clinical response. Among the patients in group 1, HCV RNA was more often undetectable and genotype 1 was less frequent in complete clinical responders compared with partial/nonresponders. Age, sex, clinical vasculitic involvement, mean duration or total cumulative dose of IFNα or ribavirin, and use of steroids or plasmapheresis did not differ significantly according to clinical response.ConclusionTreatment with IFNα and ribavirin can achieve a complete clinical response in most patients with HCV‐related systemic vasculitis. Complete clinical response correlates with the eradication of HCV.

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Transversal10

Sjögren4

Revue générale3

Lupus1

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