Circulating immune complexes in alcoholic liver disease

Circulating immune complexes in lung disease.

Circulating Immune Complexes in Lung Disease H ypersensitivity lung diseases, of which allergic aspergillosis is a prototype, are an immunologic curiosity. Organisms usually of little virulence grow in plugs of airway mucus. These organisms are protected by the mucous matrix which seems to serve as an adjuvant. The ensuing brisk immunologic response is ineffective in clearing the bronchial tree...

Circulating Immune Complexes in Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease

Alcoholic Liver Disease And Immune Response

The alcoholic liver disease (ALD) continues to be a major health problem worldwide with respect to both morbidity and mortality. It is usually an outcome of excessive alcohol consumptions but can be worse by poor diet and genetic factors. This review aims to update the recent conditions of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, immune response and therapies to ALD. The new insights into the pathogenes...

Inflammatory bowel disease associated circulating immune complexes.

Circulating immune complexes have been detected in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). To determine if these complexes are related specificially to IBD or more generally to loss of intestinal mucosal integrity, we compared circulating immune complex levels in the sera of 86 IBD patients, nine pseudomembranous and nine bacterial colitis patients, and 42 healthy controls. Immune compl...

Specific circulating immune complexes in amoebic liver abscess.

A micro enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to detect the presence of amoebic antigen in polyethylene-glycol-precipitated circulating immune complexes (CIC). A cutoff dilution of greater than 1:160 for the precipitates was taken to be of clinical significance. Among the patients with amoebic liver abscess, 93% (14 of 15 confirmed cases) had indications of amoebic antigen in CIC. In 57% o...