CONNECTIVE-TISSUE DISEASE AND RHEUMATOID FACTORS IN PATIENTS WITH RENAL TRANSPLANTS
| Autor: | Elam G. Toone, Franklin Mullinax, Robert Irby, Marion Waller |
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| Rok vydání: | 1965 |
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Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty Neuritis Arthritis Rheumatoid Neurologic Manifestations Pharmacotherapy Postoperative Complications Drug Therapy Adrenal Cortex Hormones Rheumatoid Factor Transplantation Immunology Synovitis Skin Manifestations medicine Rheumatoid factor Humans Transplantation Homologous In patient Kidney transplantation Graft rejection business.industry Arthritis Collagen Diseases Peripheral Nervous System Diseases General Medicine medicine.disease Connective tissue disease Kidney Transplantation Immunology Antibody Formation Kidney Diseases business Immunosuppressive Agents Latex Fixation Tests |
| Zdroj: | The New England journal of medicine. 273 |
| ISSN: | 0028-4793 |
| Popis: | AN impressive body of experimental evidence can be summarized by the statement that graft rejection is initiated by an immunologic process.1 Similarly, there is evidence that immunologic events may determine certain features of rheumatic disease in man.2 Furthermore, there are at least superficial resemblances between the graft-versus-host response and the generalized connective-tissue diseases.3 For these reasons, attention is naturally paid to the possible occurrence of connective-tissue alterations in patients harboring grafted tissues. Our interest in this problem was stimulated by the observation that certain patients with renal transplants had evidence of rheumatic disease and a change from negative to positive . . . |
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