• 2020 international consensus on ANCA testing beyond systemic vasculitis 

      Moiseev S., Cohen Tervaert J.W., Arimura Y., Bogdanos D.P., Csernok E., Damoiseaux J., Ferrante M., Flores-Suárez L.F., Fritzler M.J., Invernizzi P., Jayne D., Jennette J.C., Little M.A., McAdoo S.P., Novikov P., Pusey C.D., Radice A., Salama A.D., Savige J.A., Segelmark M., Shoenfeld Y., Sinico R.A., Sousa M.-J., Specks U., Terrier B., Tzioufas A.G., Vermeire S., Zhao M.-H., Bossuyt X. (2020)
      This document follows up on a 2017 revised international consensus on anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibodies (ANCA) testing in granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis and focuses on the clinical and ...
    • Infections as a cause of autoimmune rheumatic diseases 

      Sakkas L.I., Bogdanos D.P. (2016)
      Exogenous and endogenous environmental exposures and particularly infections may participate in the breakage of tolerance and the induction of autoimmunity in rheumatic diseases. Response to infections apparently occurs ...
    • Regulatory B cells: New players in inflammatory and autoimmune rheumatic diseases 

      Sakkas L.I., Daoussis D., Mavropoulos A., Liossis S.-N., Bogdanos D.P. (2019)
      Objective: Regulatory B cells (Bregs) are a new subset of B cells with immunoregulatory functions, mainly through IL-10 production. Bregs suppress inflammatory Th1 and Th17 differentiation and induce Tregs suppressing ...