PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Alvise Berti
AU  - Eric L.  Matteson
AU  - Cynthia S.  Crowson
AU  - Ulrich Specks
AU  - Divi Cornec
TI  - The Incidence of Arterial and Venous Thrombosis in Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody–associated Vasculitis
AID  - 10.3899/jrheum.181351
DP  - 2019 Jul 01
TA  - The Journal of Rheumatology
PG  - jrheum.181351
4099  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2019/06/24/jrheum.181351.short
4100  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2019/06/24/jrheum.181351.full
AB  - 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.