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C Rossano

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[Carrot soup as the cause of methemoglobinemia in an infant. Case report].

The AA. report a typical case of methemoglobinemia from carrot soup ingestion in an infant. In the discussion they point out: first, clinical findings for diagnosis of methemoglobinemia; second, criteria for an etiological diagnosis; third, they analyse the pathogenesis of methemoglobinemia resulting from carrot soup in infants. At last the AA. briefly indicate how to prevent and treat this complication.

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[Specificity, sensitivity and reproducibility of 2 methods of determining serum immunocomplexes (solid-phase C1q and polyethylene glycol precipitation)].

In the last years a few tests for the detection of circulating immune complexes (CIC) have been published. Nevertheless the data concerning their sensitivity and reproductibility are often partial. The Authors have here analysed, following this point of view, two methods for the detection of CIC, based on different mechanisms and therefore able to identify different kinds of CIC; the tests are: the PEG precipitation test and the C1q solid phase method. The reproductibility of the two methods is good, even when the samples have been many times thawn or kept at 20 degrees C for a few weeks; C1q test sensibility appears distinctly better than PEG test sensibility. By the two methods, but particularly with the PEG, it is possible to identify fluctuation of the IC levels during the day. The contemporaneous use of these two techniques can give results really useful to clinically monitorize some immune complexes diseases, such as many human glomerulonephrites.

Antigen-Antibody Complex↗
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[Quantitative and qualitative determinations and clinical and histological correlations of cryoglobulins in glomerulonephritis].

The Authors have investigated the presence of cryoglobulins in sera from 91 GN patients, 69 of whom had a renal biopsy. Cryoglobulins have been found in 12.5% of the idiopathic glomerulonephritis (GN), in 22.2% of the ones related to systemic diseases. Also 4 cases of GN with mixed essential cryoglobulinemia have been studied. Quantitative analysis has shown a IgG and IgM prevalence, the last ones of monoclonal type in 77.8% of the cases, with anti IgG activity in 44.4%. Concerning cryoglobulins found in idiopathic GN, the Authors observed a high incidence in the forms with cellular proliferation and glomerular exudation, as rapidly progressing GN, the acute post-infectious GN, and the mesangio-capillary GN. Among the GN related to systemic diseases, high incidence of cryoglobulins has been observed in lupus nephritis and polyartheritis. In both diseases (idiopathic GN and GN related to systemic diseases) a good correlation was found between clinical-ordinary activity and immunological parameters such as circulating immune complexes and complement breakdown products. The correlation between cryoglobulins level and disease activity is less evident in the mixed essential cryoglobulinemia G.N. Furthermore the Authors discuss here the pathogenesis of cryoglobulins in human G.N.

Antigen-Antibody Complex↗
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[Solid-phase conglutinin tests for circulating IgA immunocomplexes].

In some renal, gastroenterological and dermatological diseases the pathogenic role of circulating immune complexes (CIC) of IgA type has been defined. The methods so far proposed to investigate CIC are for the most part able to identify IgGIC, while only few can do the same for IgAIC. The Authors discuss in details the technique and the sensibility and specificity of a new test for IgAIC based on the linkage with the conglutinin in solid phase and propose this test for the clinical study of IgA diseases.

Antigen-Antibody Complex↗