TY - JOUR T1 - The Incidence of Arterial and Venous Thrombosis in Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody–associated Vasculitis JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol DO - 10.3899/jrheum.181351 SP - jrheum.181351 AU - Alvise Berti AU - Eric L. Matteson AU - Cynthia S. Crowson AU - Ulrich Specks AU - Divi Cornec Y1 - 2019/07/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2019/06/24/jrheum.181351.abstract N2 - We read with interest in The Journal of Rheumatology the article by Kang, et al, “High Incidence of Arterial and Venous Thrombosis in Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-associated Vasculitis,”1 which reported a dramatically high incidence of arterial (ATE) and venous thrombosis events (VTE) in a hospital-based cohort of patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody–associated vasculitis (AAV). The study generally supports the previously reported increased risk of ATE and VTE in patients affected by AAV2–8, but has a number of inaccuracies and methodological issues that inflate the incidence rates of ATE and VTE. ER -