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F Quarello

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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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[Regular dialytic treatment in the Piedmont region. Results and prospects].

The Piedmont planning for the prevention and treatment of chronic uremia started in 1976, with the purpose to extending full treatment of the whole region, through the development of home and self care dialysis and intensive use of hospital short dialysis. Hospital dialysis would be reserved either for new treatments or complicated or uncooperative patients. Thank to an intensive exploitation of the existing hospital centers, a 68.7% increment in the number of treated patients was achieved and costs were kept down to a limited acceptable range. With the development of home and self care dialysis, 27% of the patients were located in out-of-hospital centers, and 17% at home. The Piedmont planning concerned itself with the patients' data collected by the Regional Registry under the following items: a) characteristics of dialysis population; b) the present modes of treatment; c) the number of patients apt to varying treatments and renal transplantation; d) the epidemiology of uremia causing nephropathies. At the present time results are only preliminary. Nevertheless, the first observations showed a long and difficult work with good possibilities of success for computerized facilities in the field of dialysis, particularly in respect to regional areas which in the reformed Health Service are now considered to be operating as autonomous.

Adolescent↗