, 81 infliximab naive RA patients and 47 healthy subjects as controls. At the same time and apart from the purposes of that study, we also had done a pathergy test in those subjects who agreed to participate, with the aim of determining the effect of the pathergy phenomenon on the response of BS patients to the tuberculin test. Informed consent was obtained from all subjects. The study was appr...

Chronic cold agglutinin disease (CAD) is a subgroup of autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Primary CAD has traditionally been defined by the absence of any underlying or associated disease. The results of therapy with corticosteroids, alkylating agents and interferon-alpha have been poor. Cold reactive immunoglobulins against erythrocyte surface antigens are essential to pathogenesis of CAD. These col...

Nivy, R.,1 Brenner, O.,2 Kaufmann, R.,3 Aroch, I.1 and Zur, G.3 1 Department of Small Animal Internal Medicine, The Hebrew University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P. O. Box 12, Rehovot, 761001, Israel. 2 Department of Veterinary Resources, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76100, Israel. 3 Department of Dermatology, The Hebrew ...