Granulomatosis with polyangiitis presenting as high fever with diffuse alveolar hemorrhage and otitis media: A case report

Table 1 Results of Fortin et al[17]

	Treated with IVIG	Treated with systemic corticosteroids and immunosuppressive drug	Total adverse events	Mortality, serious adverse events, time to relapse, open-label rescue therapy, and infection rates
Control group	(-)	(+)	-	No remarkable differences
Study group	(+)	(+)	Higher	No remarkable differences

IVIG: Intravenous immunoglobulin.

Table 2 Results of Tsurikisawa et al[22]

	IVIG therapy	Conventional therapy	Frequency of CD25+ (before therapy)	Frequency of CD25+ (after IVIG treatment)
Control group	(-)	(+)	Higher	-
Study group	(+)	(+)	-	Higher

CD25: Cluster of differentiation 25; IVIG: Intravenous immunoglobulin.