Quote Originally Posted by Chadwyck View Post
This is something I started questioning recently... is GPA, (Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis) the new name for Wegener's??? I sometimes get it mixed up with Microscopic Polyangiitis, MPA.
Actually, Chad, GPA and MPA are pretty much identical (and just as evil) twins. But those who name these things are kind of chagrined that Herr Wegener was a rather big-time Nazi. So the idea is to take away the honorific. Personally, I just make the observation that it doesn't matter all that much now; the guy is dead in any case.

Al