rheumatoid factor
Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies and rheumatoid factor in leprosy patients with articular involvement
... Rheumatoid factor (RF) is reported as positive in 70- 80% of RA patients; however, its specificity is limited since RF is also detected in sera from healthy elderly individuals and patients with various ...
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Comparative study between immunoturbidimetric and latex agglutination methods for the detection of rheumatoid factor
... The rheumatoid factor (RF) is the most common antibody found in patients with rheumatoid ...The rheumatoid factor is found in 70%-80% of the adult population and in 10% of the young ...
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J. bras. pneumol. vol.41 número3
... antinuclear factor, negative; PCR, ...negative; rheumatoid factor, positive (443 IU/mL); perinuclear and cytoplasmic antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (p-ANCA and c-ANCA), negative on several ...
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A Rare Presentation of Peritoneal Tuberculosis Mimicking Malignancy
... antibodies, rheumatoid factor, and anticyclic citrullinated ...of rheumatoid factor while rheumatology symptoms in these patients were ...the rheumatoid fac- tors produced by ...
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Bronchocentric granulomatosis in rheumatoid arthritis: case report and literature review
... A chest CT scan was performed and revealed mild pulmonary fibrosis in the upper, mid and lower zones of bilateral lung fields and a 5-cm thick-walled pul- monary cavity in the right lower lobe (Figure 1, Pa nels a and ...
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LDL cholesterolemia as a novel risk factor for radiographic progression of rheumatoid arthritis: a single-center prospective study.
... We next wanted to compare the influence of LDL cholester- olemia with that of conventional risk factors for RA progression, including time-integrated ESR, time-integrated CRP, the presence of rheumatoid ...
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Research Article Effect of Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor Therapy on Osteoclasts Precursors in Rheumatoid Arthritis
... 2.1. Patients. Patients with RA fulfilling the 2010 Amer- ican College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism criteria [10] were recruited from the Rheumatol- ogy Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon ...
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Rev. Bras. Reumatol. vol.52 número5 en v52n5a04
... of rheumatoid ar- thritis (ExRA) from an university-affi liated rheumatology center; to report the prevalence of ExRA and to compare it with available data; and to identify, if possible, ExRA ...with ...
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Extra-Articular Manifestations of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Now
... related to ExRA published up to June 2011, and found smoking, early disability, antinuclear antibodies, and rheumatoid factor (RF) positivity as the principal predictor factors of severe ExRA. Gender was ...
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Efeito da talidomida sobre os níveis séricos de imunoglobulinas IgM e IgA, fator reumatóide e isohemaglutinina anti-A e anti-B em pacientes com lepra lepromatosa: um estudo duplo-cego.
... A double-blind study was performed in a group of patients with lepromatous leprosy to evaluate the response of I g M and IgA serum le- vels and of serum titles of rheumatoid factor a[r] ...
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Rev. Bras. Reumatol. vol.52 número5 en v52n5a02
... I n December 2011, the Brazilian Journal of Rheumatology (BJR) published the article “Anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies and rheumatoid factor in Sudanese patients with Leishmania donovani infection” by ...
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Rev. Bras. Reumatol. vol.54 número3
... ABSTRACT: The paper entitled Ahlin E, Elshafei A, Nur M, El Sai SH, Johan R, Elghazali G. Anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies and rheumatoid factor in Sudanese patients with Leishmani[r] ...
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Rev. Bras. Reumatol. vol.53 número6 en v53n6a09
... study where the frequencies of infection in RA patients were compared to controls. The participants were followed-up for over ten years. There were a total of 1,218 participants (609 RA and an equivalent number of non-RA ...
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Rev. Bras. Reumatol. vol.50 número3 en v50n3a03
... for rheumatoid factor and antibodies to cardiolipin, RNP, Sm, Ro/SS-A, anti-La/SS-B, anti-histone, and anti-dsDNA antibodies, while two patients were positive for anti-chromatin and one for ...and ...
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Rev. Bras. Reumatol. vol.56 número4
... complements (one-way ANOVA, p value ranging from p = 0.467 to p = 0.952). Moreover, in relation to the results of the labora- tory tests, there was no association between the experimental groups and the result for ...
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Rev. Hosp. Clin. vol.57 número5
... juvenile rheumatoid arthritis diagnosed according to the American College of Rheumatology criteria were studied: 38 (42%) with systemic, 28 (31%) with pauciarticular, and 25 (27%) with polyarticular ...
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Rev. Bras. Reumatol. vol.57 número5
... single rheumatology outpatient clinic of a tertiary care cen- ter during the period of one year (August 2012 to August 2013) were studied. This is an observational, analytical, cross- sectional study of a convenience ...
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Rev. Bras. Reumatol. vol.57 número4
... IgA-rheumatoid factor (RF) were deter- mined by ELISA and IgM-RF by latex agglutination in 210 RA patients, 198 relatives and 92 healthy controls from Southern ...
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Valvular involvement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
... duration, rheumatoid factor, antinuclear antibody, anticardiolipin antibodies, rheumatoid nodules and functional class in RA ...exposure, rheumatoid factor positivity, presence of ...
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Relationship between Plasma Levels of Homocysteine and Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
... There are many studies on this topic in the lit- erature. In two recent studies, serum Hcy levels were found to be increased in patients with RA [31,32]. In these studies, IL-6 and TNF- α levels weren’t studied. However, ...
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