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ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2025

Effectiveness and Safety of Avacopan as a Combination Therapy with Glucocorticoids or Monotherapy in Patients with Microscopic Polyangiitis.

Takashi Jubashi, Takuya Tomokawa, Kazusato Hara, Yoshiro Horai, Atsushi Kawakami

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Article in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Making use of avacopan in clinical practice.Clinical kidney journal · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Takashi JubashiDepartment of Rheumatology, Sasebo City General Hospital, Japan.
Takuya TomokawaDepartment of Rheumatology, Sasebo City General Hospital, Japan.
Kazusato HaraDepartment of Rheumatology, Sasebo City General Hospital, Japan.
Yoshiro HoraiDepartment of Rheumatology, Sasebo City General Hospital, Japan.
Atsushi KawakamiDepartment of Immunology and Rheumatology, Division of Advanced Preventive Medical Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We herein report three cases of microscopic polyangiitis (MPA). Two patients were administered avacopan in combination with glucocorticoid (GC), whereas one patient was treated with avacopan monotherapy; none of the patients were co-administered either rituximab or cyclophosphamide. The doses of GC were successfully reduced after the introduction of avacopan in the two patients, and the serum C-reactive protein levels decreased in the patient treated with avacopan monotherapy. Avacopan may therefore be effective either in combination with GC or as monotherapy, even for patients at a high risk of developing adverse effects when administered rituximab or cyclophosphamide.

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GlucocorticoidsMicroscopic PolyangiitisAgedC-Reactive ProteinCyclophosphamideDrug Therapy, CombinationFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRituximabTreatment OutcomeC-Reactive ProteinCyclophosphamideGlucocorticoidsRituximabavacopanglucocorticoidmicroscopic polyangiitis

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PMID39401911
PMCPMC12120216

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