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J Arellano

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[Immunosuppression and blood transfusions in patients with a kidney transplant].

94 patients with renal allograft from a living related donor were studied in three different groups: 1 Patients with identical histocompatibility (n-32), treated with prednisone (PDN) and azathioprine (Aza); 2 Haploidentical patients (34) who received PDN, Aza and cyclosporine (CsA); 3 Haploidentical patients (28) who previous to the transplantation received specific donor blood transfusions and Aza/PDN after the transplantation. The survival for the patient and the graft after five years was 100% and 96% in group 1; 97% y 89% in group 2 and 82% and 72% in group 3. Five patients in group 1 received CsA also. There was no mortality in group 1, while there were one death in group 2 and two more in group 3. There was no significant difference between CsA and Blood transfusions in the patients and grafts survival.

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Incongruent parenthood in a Mexican mestizo population as determined by HLA typing.

The incidence of incongruent parenthood was determined by confronting the declared familial relationship of 98 father-mother-son/daughter trinomials (drawn from the Centro Médico Nacional-IMSS (CMN-IMSS) Kidney Transplant Program) with their HLA-A and B antigens. Fourteen (14.3%) discrepant cases were found: three each with the putative father (3.1%) or with the putative mother (3.1%), two with either father or mother (though impossible to determine precisely with whom) (2.0%), and six with both parents (6.1%). Several possible explanations of these findings were considered, such as out-of-wedlock pregnancies, complex known or unknown, declared or undeclared social circumstances frequently related to the population studied (i.e. imminent kidney transplantation) and technical pitfalls. These data underscore the level of possible "noise" and imprecision in population genetics; genetic-epidemiology and transplantation programs.

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Does serum rheumatoid factor have an influence on the clinical picture of ankylosing spondylitis?

OBJECTIVE: To describe the influence of serum rheumatoid factor (RF) on the clinical and radiological picture of definite ankylosing spondylitis (AS). METHODS: In a retrospective chart review of 281 AS patients typed for RF, the clinical picture of RF positive patients (Group 1) was compared with RF negative patients (Group 2); mode of onset, disease duration, and treatment were recorded. All patients were examined to determine their clinical status; the blood cell count. HLA-B27, serum IgG, IgM, IgA, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) were determined, and radiological studies of the entire spine, pelvis and affected peripheral joints were carried out. In patients from Group 1 the HLA-DR was also determined. RESULTS: Fifteen of 281 patients (8 men, 7 women) with AS were RF+ (1:64 to 1:1024) (5.3%) and 11 were HLA-B27+. Seven patients in Group 1 had spine involvement and chronic arthritis of the knees. Four out of these 7 were tested for DR, and none was positive; in 6, AS and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) coexisted, 2 were DR1 and 2 were DR4 (test not carried out in 2). In two others we found spinal involvement only, and one of them had both DR1 and DR4. The onset of AS was similar in both groups. Group 1 was characterized by a chronic disease of moderate intensity with chronic arthritis of the metacarpophalangeal and proximal interphalangeal joints (p = 0.0008 and p = 0.04, respectively), no valvulopathy (p = 0.04) and fewer uveitis sequelae (p = 0.007) than Group 2. The ESR (p = 0.01), IgG (p = 0.008) and IgM (p = 0.0001) were higher in Group 1 than in Group 2. CONCLUSIONS: The presence of RF in AS is associated with a chronic disease of moderate intensity with chronic peripheral arthritis and fewer extra-articular manifestations. The presence of RF, not always associated with HLA-DR, seems to affect the course of AS and does not necessarily indicate an association with RA.

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