Table 3.
N | Gender | Age | Type of AIP | Onset and Type of Vasculitis |
Treatment | Smoking Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | male | 75 | Type 1 | 4 years after AIP diagnosis: asymmetric thickening of aorta wall (up till 5 mm) in infrarenal part of aorta | Rituximab and CST 10 mg | Former (30 PY) |
2 * | male | 66 | Type 1 | 4 years after AIP diagnosis: thickening of aorta wall over the bifurcation | Azathioprine and CST 10 mg | Never |
3 | male | 57 | Type 1 | At the time of AIP diagnosis: circumferential thickening of aorta wall |
Rituximab | Never |
4 * | male | 66 | Type 1 | GPA 9 months after AIP: diagnosis with lung and bowel involvement | Rituximab and CST 2.5 mg | Never |
5 * | female | 65 | Type 1 | GPA 2 months after AIP: diagnosis with lung involvement | Rituximab | Never |
6 | male | 65 | Type 1 | 1 year after AIP diagnosis: mild thickening in infrarenal part of aorta | No treatment so far | Never |
7 | male | 68 | Type 1 | 3 months after AIP diagnosis: vasculitis in form of skin changes | Previously treated with CST and now hematologic treatment with lenalidomide (multiple myeloma) | Former (8 PY) |
8 * | male | 85 | Type 1 | At the time of AIP diagnosis: imaging signs of periaortitis | Previously treated with CST, currently no treatment | Former (10 PY) |
9 * | female | 24 | Type 1 | At the time of AIP diagnosis: eosinophilic myocarditis | Previously with CST, currently no treatment | Never |
10 * | male | 50 | Type 1 | 5 years before AIP diagnosis: Churg Strauss syndrome, pericarditis and eosinophilic myocarditis, patients also had Erdheim Chester disease and hyper eosinophilic syndrome | Rituximab | Never |
AIP-autoimmune pancreatitis; CST-corticosteroids; PY-pack-year; * patients also in Table 2; GPA-granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly known as Wegener’s granulomatosis); AIP NOS-autoimmune pancreatitis non-otherwise specified; age-age of patients at the time of AIP diagnosis.