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Table 3. Main Organ or System Involvement and Clinical M

Organ/syste

Reference Patients (n) Mean age Heart H

Pagnoux et al.(36) 348 51 22 35

Gunal et al. (99) 15 (children) 10 67 20

Travers et al. (100)* 17 41 89 29

Schrader et al. *(101) 36 41
– 61 72
Fortin et al. (66) 45 54 18 –

Cohen et al* (102) 53 54 4 14

Leib et al* (47) 64 47 30 25
– 10 –
Frohnert et al.* (35) 130

Guillevin et al. (103) 165 48 23 31

*These older studies may have included PAN patients who would now be diagnose
Abbreviations: CNS, central nervous system; GI, gastrointestinal; PNS, peripheral n

Complimentary C