Acute phase reactants and severity of homozygous sickle cell disease
| Autor: | C. C. Hedo, L. S. Salimonu, A. O. Durojaiye, I. E. Okpala, Yetunde Aken'ova |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Male Immunodiffusion medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Anemia Alpha (ethology) Anemia Sickle Cell Severity of Illness Index Internal medicine Internal Medicine Humans Medicine Immunoelectrophoresis chemistry.chemical_classification biology business.industry Homozygote Haptoglobin Acute-phase protein Albumin medicine.disease Blood proteins Sickle cell anemia Endocrinology chemistry Transferrin Immunology biology.protein Female business Acute-Phase Proteins |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Internal Medicine. 233:467-470 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2796 0954-6820 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1365-2796.1993.tb01000.x |
| Popis: | Serum concentrations of seven acute-phase reactants: albumin, transferrin (Tf), alpha-1-antitrypsin (AIAT), caeruloplasmin (Cp), alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2-MG), haptoglobin (hp) and C-reactive protein (CRP) were determined in 73 subjects with varying severities of homozygous sickle cell (HbSS) disease. Fifty healthy subjects of comparable sex, age and socio-economic class distributions as the HbSS subjects served as controls. Albumin and alpha 2-MG were comparable in all the subject groups. Tf and hp levels were significantly reduced in the HbSS groups relative to the control group. Conversely, AIAT, CRP and CP were significantly elevated. However only Tf and CRP manifested significant correlations with any of the indices of disease severity employed. Transferrin and CRP are suggested as plasma proteins worthy of further evaluation as indicators of severity in homozygous sickle cell disease. |
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