Abstract: Neuropsychiatric manifestations of SLE are frequent and usually serious, convulsion is one of the most important and hazardous symptoms of CNS-LUPUS. Because there are many differences in clinical manifestations frequency and severity of organ systems involvement, and cause of death in patients with SLE (in Iran and other countries) an analytic retrospective case-control study was carried out to evaluate the frequency of convulsion in relation with age and sex distribution, ...
Abstract: Anti-neutrophil cytoplasrnic autoantibodies (ANCA) were first described in patients with necrotizing glomerulonephritis. The original observation passed virtually unnoticed until an association was found between ANCA and active Wegener's granulomatosis. Since then, tremendous progress has been made in elucidating the association between ANCA subtypes and clinicopathologic syndromes, and in considering potential pathogenic role of ANCA in vascular inflammation. The gold standard method for ANCA detection rests with indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) microscopy. ...
Abstract: Anti-cardiolipin antibodies (ACA) occur in patients with SLE, lupus-like illness and with some other illnesses, such as malignancy, syphilis and among healthy elderly. We found that the prevalence of IgG and IgM ACA isotopes in 147 Iranian SLE patients was 49.7% for IgG and 5.6% for IgM. In addition, some SLE and non-SLE patients from other centers were studied: the prevalence of ACA-IgG in SLE patients from Mashad was 54%; ...
Abstract: In this research we have studied the peripheral blood neutrophils phagocytosis and serum opsonic capacity by luminal excited chemiluminescence method. in 73 cases, who, evaluated in this research, none of them received any therapeutic drugs. All of cases, consists of 34 normal subject (female=l9, male=l5) and 18 patient control (included RA= 5, JRA=1, Polymyositis = 1, Behcet disease = 2, AS =3, Vascuiitis = 3 and scleroderma = 3) and 21 ...
Abstract: The concept that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease is supported by variety of autoantibodies in patient's serum. The most important of these are rheumatoid factors (RFs), antibodies that react with the patient's own Ig. It has been suggested that IgM-RF plays a role in disease pathogenesis. The main source of IgM-RF are B cells that express the pan T-cell marker, CDS: We conducted this study to test the ...