Immune myopathies with perimysial pathology: Clinical and laboratory features [PDF]
ObjectiveImmune myopathies with perimysial pathology (IMPP) have a combination of damage to perimysial connective tissue and muscle fiber necrosis, more prominent near the perimysium.
Bucelli, Robert C, Pestronk, Alan
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Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) are associated with small vessel vasculitis but their prevalence is not rare in other immune diseases.
Joana Eugénio Santos+6 more
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Antinuclear Antibodies: A demographic profile from a Tertiary Healthcare Centre of Delhi
Background: Anti-nuclear autoantibodies (ANA), have explicitly been linked to immune complex-mediated autoimmune diseases. Detection and quantitation of autoantibodies are therefore crucial in the diagnosis and treatment.
Krishna Sarkar+3 more
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Antinuclear Antibodies in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Treated or Not with Biologics. [PDF]
With the emergence of biotherapies, accurate diagnosis in early arthritis is needed. At this time, there is no biological marker of psoriatic arthritis.To test whether antinuclear antibodies (ANA) can be used as a diagnostic tool in psoriatic arthritis ...
Florent Silvy+8 more
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Objective: Eltrombopag remains a prominent option in the treatment of steroid-dependent or steroid-refractory immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) patients. Unfortunately, not all patients respond to eltrombopag.
Mehmet Baysal+4 more
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Clinical and serological features of systemic sclerosis in a multicenter African American cohort: Analysis of the genome research in African American scleroderma patients clinical database. [PDF]
Racial differences exist in the severity of systemic sclerosis (SSc). To enhance our knowledge about SSc in African Americans, we established a comprehensive clinical database from the largest multicenter cohort of African American SSc patients assembled
Boin, Francesco+28 more
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Intracellular and circulating neuronal antinuclear antibodies in human epilepsy
There are overwhelming data supporting the inflammatory origin of some epilepsies (e.g., Rasmussen's encephalitis and limbic encephalitis). Inflammatory epilepsies with an autoimmune component are characterized by autoantibodies against membrane-bound ...
Philip H. Iffland, II+8 more
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CD4 T lymphocyte autophagy is upregulated in the salivary glands of primary Sjögren’s syndrome patients and correlates with focus score and disease activity [PDF]
Background: Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is a common chronic autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltration of exocrine glands and peripheral lymphocyte perturbation.
A Bhattacharya+58 more
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Immunology markers that can be predictive for the diagnosis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis
This study aimed to investigate the implications of antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), the association with uveitis and the favorable evolution of the disease.
Sur Lucia M.+9 more
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Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome after Orthotopic Liver Transplant
Background. Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS) is an autoimmune thrombogenic disorder of small and large vessels caused by autoantibodies against phospholipids and phospholipid-binding proteins.
R. Okeke+8 more
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