Hi Sangye! Hope you're doing a b it better than last time I was around.
Al, yeah, ANCA has always been a bit hit and miss with me. I've had positive cANCA, pANCA, negative everything when I'm at my illest and positives when I feel OK. I was diagnosed again this week after a bronchoscopy and we've only just done my first ANCA test in over a year - really out of curiosity rather than as a diagnostic tool.
I may be talking out of my behind here, but over the years I've been increasingly of the opinion that WG is a pretty loose diagnosis. I've variously been diagnosed as having PAN with WG symptoms, WG with PAN symptoms or just the catch-all "autoimmune vasculitis", which I tend to prefer.
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