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Immune Complexes in Acute Pancreatitis
Author(s) -
Fey A.,
Smart C.,
Duggan J. M.,
Major G. A. C.,
Clancy R.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1981.tb03533.x
Subject(s) - immune system , medicine , pancreatitis , acute pancreatitis , polyarthritis , etiology , immunology , arthritis
Immune complexes were detected in the sera of ten of 22 patients with acute pancreatitis using a Clq deviation assay. Five of these were positive using a second technique. There was no correlation between immune complexes and clinical or aetiological features of the pancreatitis. Two patients with immune complexes developed a benign and transient pancreatic polyarthritis. Immune complexes may provide one common path in the sequence of pathogenic events that lead to pancreatitis .