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Published on: June 23, 2014
Anti-golgi antibodies: Prevalence and disease association in Chinese population
Lisha Ma1, Aiping Zeng1, Ying Chen1
1Department of Clinical Laboratory, the First People's Hospital of Wenling, Affiliated Wenzhou Medical University, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
Objective:
Anti-golgi antibodies (AGAs) are rarely encountered and often considered in relation to autoimmune diseases in clinical practice. This research was performed for studying the prevalence and clinical significance of AGAs in Chinese population.
Methods:
We retrospectively reviewed 22,619 laboratory reports of AGAs detected by indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) were consecutively collected from the First People's Hospital of Wenling between June 2012 and June 2017. Eight patients with AGAs were followed up for relevant clinical and laboratory characteristics.
Result:
A total of 22,619 laboratory reports were collected. Of 19 patients with AGAs, 7 cases (all females) had autoimmune diseases (AID) and 12 cases (6 females and 6 males) had non-AID. High titer AGAs ranging from 1:1000 to 1:3200 were persistently present in AID patients, while low-titer AGAs ranging from 1:100 to 1:320 were transient in non-AID patients.
Conclusion:
This is the first study to assess the AGA positive rate and relevant clinical manifestations in a hospitalized Chinese population. AGAs were rare and occurred in a variety of diseases. They were persistently strongly positive in AID, whereas low-titered and transient in non-AID.
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