INCREASED INCIDENCE OF IgM CLASS SMOOTH MUSCLE ANTIBODY IN PATIENTS AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION1
- 1 May 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Transplantation
- Vol. 31 (5) , 343-346
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00007890-198105010-00008
Abstract
Autoantibodies were examined in 70 patients with renal failure, before acceptance on a hemodialysis program, during the program and up to 3 mo. after renal transplantation. Smooth muscle antibody (SMA) in the IgM class was detected in 76% of the patients after transplantation compared with 14% before transplantation. This increase was significant at the 5% level. Two groups of patients were distinguished on the basis of a 4-fold or greater increase or not demonstrable increase in the titer of IgM SMA after transplantation. Rejection episodes occurred more frequently amongst patients from this former group (67%) compared with the latter group (35%).This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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