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"@type": "Question",
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"@type": "Question",
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"@type": "Question",
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"text": "Les antécédents de cicatrisation anormale et les maladies cutanées augmentent le risque."
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"text": "Oui, les résultats peuvent varier selon l'âge, avec des peaux plus jeunes réagissant mieux."
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Previous studies suggested that distinct phenotypes of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA; formerly known as Churg-Strauss syndrome) could be determined by the presence or absence of ...
This study used standardized data of 15 European centers for patients with EGPA fulfilling widely accepted classification criteria. We used multiple correspondence analysis, hierarchical cluster analy...
The analyses included 489 patients diagnosed between 1984 and 2015. ANCA were detected in 37.2% of patients, mostly perinuclear ANCA (85.4%) and/or antimyeloperoxidase (87%). Compared with ANCA-negati...
Although reinforcing the known association of ANCA status with clinical manifestations, cluster analysis does not support a complete separation of EGPA in ANCA-positive and -negative subsets. Collecti...
In the present study, we applied cluster analysis (CA) in SLE patients with joint involvement to identify which disease subset most commonly develops erosive damage....
We collected clinical and laboratory data of SLE patients with a clinical history of joint involvement (arthritis/arthralgia). Ultrasonographic assessment was performed at level of MCPs and PIPs joint...
CA included 112 SLE patients (M/F 6/106; median age 45 years, IQR 17; median disease duration 96 months, IQR 165). Arthritis was observed in 82 patients (73.2%) and inflammatory arthralgia in 30 (26.8...
The application of CA made it possible to better characterise SLE phenotype including erosive arthritis. In particular, feature-driven CA leads to the identification of a more aggressive disease, due ...