RHEUMATOID FACTOR IN SLE AND CTD PATIENTS
Correlation of Demographic and Clinical Characteristics with Rheumatoid Factor Seropositivity in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
... RA patients due to their well-established effectiveness (36). The patients achieve reduced disease activity and functional disability when such agents are used in combination with methotrexate (MTX) ...RA ...
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Increased IgG Rheumatoid Factor Positivity in the Asian Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Irrespective of Ethnicity
... Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the Director General of Health, Ministry of Health, Malaysia for supporting the work described in this paper and permission to publish this paper. We are indebted to ...
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Immunoglobulin E rheumatoid factor in the serum of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, and other diseases
... IgE-rheumatoid factor activity was found in the serum of 18 of 20 patients with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis, 1 of 4 patients with seronegative rheumatoid arthritis, 3 of 32 ...
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Immune complexes in sera and synovial fluids of patients with rheumatoid arthritis Radioimmunoassay with monocylonal rheumatoid factor
... monoclonal rheumatoid factor (mRF) to serum or synovial ...RA patients, we developed a radioimmunoassay based on inhibition by test samples of the interaction ...
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Rheumatoid Factor (RF)
... (1). Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic disease characterized by chronic proliferation and inflammation of joint cartilage and supporting ...IgG rheumatoid factor has been reported to be present in ...
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Effect of pregnancy on serum cytokines in SLE patients
... in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and in healthy ...46 SLE patients and 56 pregnancies in 56 matched healthy subjects, as controls, were prospectively ...necrosis ...
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Outcome of patients with early arthritis without rheumatoid factor and ACPA and predictors of rheumatoid arthritis in the ESPOIR cohort
... switch from negative to positive occurred in 2% for ACPA and 3% for IgM-RF during the first year of follow-up [21]. The secondary objective of our study was to determine baseline predictors of fulfilling the 2010 ...
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RHEUMATOID FACTOR, COMPLEMENT, AND CONGLUTININ ABERRATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS
... Results of capillary precipitin tests in patients with subacute bacterial endocarditis roughly paralleled their latex reactivity.. We obtained some quantitation of the rheuma-.[r] ...
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Differential Expression of Rheumatoid Factor-Associated Cross-Reactive Idiotypes in Iranian Seropositive and Seronegative Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
... RA patients was higher than that of the SP RA patients, suggesting lack of association with RF activity, or alternatively negative selection for LC1 coding genes in RF ...
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A Study of correlation of disease severity by Clinical Assessment, Radiological Assessment and IgG Rheumatoid factor in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
... many patients with presences of changes in radiographs, there was no significant correlation with a p value more than ...of patients vulnerable to erosions and other changes and hence more aggressive ...
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The correlation between rheumatoid factor and anti cyclic citrullinated peptides with gene expression of FoxP3 in rheumatoid artheritis patients
... Also, the results of this study showed that the sensitivity and specificity of these two factors were 93.1, 91.1 for RF, 89.1 and 86.95 for anti-CCP, respectively. These results, in consistent with other studies, show ...
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Complement fixation by rheumatoid factor
... IgM rheumatoid factors (RF) isolated from sera of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and monoclonal IgM-RF isolated from the cryoprecipitates of patients with IgM-IgG ...
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Circulating immune complexes and immunoglobulin A rheumatoid factor in patients with mesangial immunoglobulin A nephropathies
... C Czerkinsky, … , J H Galla, J Mestecky J Clin Invest. 1986;77(6):1931-1938. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI112522. Circulating immune complexes (CIC) containing IgA and C3 were elevated in 48% of IgA nephropathy ...
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Rheumatoid Factor is a Marker of Disease Severity in Korean Rheumatoid Arthritis
... RA patients, because the clinical manifestations and prognosis of RA could be different upon ...seropositive patients had a longer follow-up period, more fre- quent involvement of hand joint, and higher in- ...
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Original Article Roles of claudin-5 and von Willebrand factor in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
... in patients with ...RA patients [14-21]. Veselinovic et al [22] suggested that RA patients have sig- nificantly elevated serum vWF level compared with controls associated with the development of ...
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Gene Expression of Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha in Etanercept Treated Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
... of patients also showed no significant variations in the distribution of 2 −∆∆Ct means, with the exception of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (ACCP) ...male patients recorded a lower mean than female ...
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Suboptimal cardiovascular risk factor identification and management in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cohort analysis
... in patients with DM than in those with ...with patients with RA. This indicates that, although patients with RA have a well-established increased CV risk, equivalent to the risk observed in DM, ...
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Communicating laboratory test results for rheumatoid factor: what do patients and physicians want?
... that patients understand their options and as a safeguard against missed ...that patients tend to want to receive sufficient information to understand not just what their laboratory test results are, but ...
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Predicting occurrence rate of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) in pregnant women
... The original dataset had 85 variables and 883,473 observations. To prepare the data for modeling, data was subjected to intensive cleansing procedures. The final datasets had 397,898 and 398,742 records with 72 variables ...
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Cellular localization of rheumatoid factor idiotypes
... from rheumatoid arthritis patients with pokeweed mitogen produces a large number of plasma cells that express the dominant cross-reactive idiotype previously found on monoclonal IgM anti-gamma-globulins ...
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