Nationwide Trends in Hospitalizations and In-Hospital Mortality in Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis (Wegener's).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's) (GPA) is a type of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis that often entails severe end-organ damage and treatment-related complications that frequently lead to hospitalization and death. Nationwide trends in hospitalizations and in-hospital mortality over the past 2 decades are unknown and were evaluated in this study.

Methods

Using the National Inpatient Sample, the largest all-payer inpatient database in the US, trends in hospitalizations with a discharge diagnosis of GPA (formerly Wegener's granulomatosis; International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification code 446.4) between 1993 and 2011 were studied. Analyses were performed using hospital-level sampling weights to obt

SUBMITTER: Wallace ZS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5219862 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature