Glomerular Disease in Patients with Infectious Processes Developing Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies

Glomerular Disease in Patients with Infectious Processes Developing Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies

To identify differences in treatment and outcome of various types of glomerulonephritis developing in the course of infections triggering antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) formation, we analyzed published reports of 50 patients. Immunosuppressives were added to antibiotics in 22 of 23 patients with pauci-immune glomerulonephritis. Improvement was noted in 85% of 20 patients with inform...

Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies in Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Infection with this bacterium is known to induce the development of autoantibodies of which a few are also known to be diagnostic markers for some other diseases. Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies (ANCA's) are among those autoantibodies used in clinical setting for diagnosing systemic vasculitic sy...

antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis

background: mycobacterium tuberculosis is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. infection with this bacterium is known to induce the development of autoantibodies of which a few are also known to be diagnostic markers for some other diseases. antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (anca's) are among those autoantibodies used in clinical setting for diagnosing systemic vasculit...

Negative antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in Behçet's disease.

Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in rheumatoid arthritis patients.

We determined the occurrence of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) and their specificities in 77 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and compared them with 25 patients with psoriatic arthritis (Pso), 19 with drug-induced lupus erythematosus (DI-LE) and 11 with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Thirty-two percent of RA patients had positive indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) stains (P...