ANCA - DIAGNOSING VASCULITIS

Source (1998?):  http://webrheum.bham.ac.uk/professional/general/Immunology.htm


Table 1. ANCA and disease associations

 

Clinical syndrome

% Patients positive for ANCA specific for PR3 or MPO*

Wegener’s granulomatosis

Microscopic polyangiitis

Idiopathic crescentic glomerulonephritis

Churg-Strauss syndrome

Polyarteritis nodosa

Henoch Shoenlein purpura

Takayusu arthritis

Kawasaki disease

90

75

70

50

10

0

0

0

* approximation of the proportion of patients positive for ANCA based on references cited by Kallenberg et al (9) and others.