Internal medicine

The most recent articles from: Intern. Med. December 1992

Internal medicine · Dec 1992

Proceedings of symposia at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine. Tokyo, April 2-4, 1992.

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Internal medicine · Dec 1992

Anti-centromere antibody and CREST syndrome in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis.

Anti-centromere antibodies (ACA) in 41 sera from patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) were analyzed by an immunoblotting method and the correlation between the presence of ACA and the clinical features in these PBC patients was studied. In 10 of 16 ACA-positive PBC patients, one or more clinical features of CREST syndrome (PBC-CREST) were found. ⋯ The 18 kD polypeptides were detected in all 16 ACA-positive PBC patients. From these results, it is suggested that ACA-positive PBC-CREST patients can be separated from ACA-negative PBC-CREST and PBC-non CREST patients.

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