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[1] [7] [8] Plasma exchange is also used in severe cases with damage to the lungs, kidneys, or intestines. [9] The number of new cases of GPA each year is estimated to be 2.1–14.4 new cases per million people in Europe. [3] GPA is rare in Japanese and African-American populations but occurs more often in people of Northern European descent. [7]
Friedrich Wegener (7 April 1907, Varel – 9 July 1990, Lübeck, [veːɡɐnəɐ̯]) was a German pathologist who is notable for his description of a rare disease originally referred to Wegener disease and now referred to as granulomatosis with polyangiitis. Although this disease was known before Wegener's description, from the 1950s onwards it ...
Support move consensus among pathologists seems to indicate the name has changed. Pubmed for Wegener's granulomatosis show 7046 hits with a decrease over the last 2-3 years, while Granulomatosis (with) polyangitis gives 6602 hits with an increase the last year or so. CFCF 17:07, 27 November 2013 (UTC) Oppose for now. WG is still in significant ...
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), formerly known as Wegener’s granulomatosis (WG), is a rare immune-mediated systemic disease with an unclear etiology. It manifests pathologically as an inflammatory response pattern in the kidneys, upper and lower respiratory tracts , and granulomatous inflammation, which includes necrosis .
whole-brain radiotherapy treatment: WC: white cells or wheelchair W/C: wheelchair: WD: well developed: WDL: within defined limits (as per hospital defined policy) WH: well hydrated (not dehydrated or hyperhydrated) WDWN: well developed and well nourished: WEE: Western equine encephalitis virus: WG: Wegener's granulomatosis (now known as ...
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Wegener's granulomatosis (now known as granulomatosis with polyangiitis) Wegmann–Jones–Smith syndrome; Weil syndrome; Weinstein–Kliman–Scully syndrome; Weismann–Netter–Stuhl syndrome; Weissenbacher–Zweymuller syndrome; Welander distal myopathy, Swedish type; Weleber–Hecht–Bigley syndrome; Wellesley–Carmen–French syndrome
An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...