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. 2018 Aug 16;6:226. doi: 10.3389/fped.2018.00226

Table 3.

Clinical differences between GPA and MPA.

GPA MPA
Constitutional symptoms Common Common
ENT disease Common and often severe Sinusitis, epistaxis, otitis media, septal perforation, subglottic stenosis Very mild to absent
Pulmonary involvement Nodules, cavitatary lesions, fixed infiltrates, and pulmonary hemorrhage Pulmonary hemorrhage
Ocular Scleritis, episcleritis, orbital pseudotumor, uveitis, conjunctivitis Episcleritis and conjunctivitis. Rare orbital pseudotumor
Kidney Segmental pauci-immune necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis (rare granulomatous lesions) Segmental pauci-immune necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis
Nervous system Headache, peripheral neuropathy (rare) peripheral neuropathy (common)
Cardiovascular Venous thrombosis, Occasionally valvular lesions Rare involvement.