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Acute-phase proteins in patients with systemic sclerosis
E J Kucharz1, E Grucka-Mamczar, A Mamczar
1Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
Clinical Rheumatology
|May 3, 2000
Abstract:
Acute-phase proteins were determined in serum of 20 women with systemic sclerosis and 10 age-matched healthy controls. All the patients had had symptoms of the disease less than five years. An increase in only a few proteins (haptoglobin, alpha1-acid glycoprotein, complement component C3 and alpha2-macroglobulin) was found. The results indicate for the impaired acute phase response in patients with systemic sclerosis.