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CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 2, Pages 246-250Publisher
SPRINGER LONDON LTD
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-005-1166-x
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anti-cardiolipin antibodies; anti-beta(2) glycoprotein 1 antibodies; isotype; thrombosis
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We correlated the distribution and levels of serum anti-cardiolipin (aCL) and anti-beta(2)-glycoprotein-1 antibodies (anti-beta(2)-GPI) of the IgG and IgM isotypes to the clinical spectrum of recent (< 6 months) thrombo-embolic events in a cohort of 162 patients. Clinical information was obtained by questionnaires from the referring physicians. Cerebro-vascular infarction (CVI) had taken place in 82 patients, deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in 34, pulmonary embolism (PE) in 14, myocardial infarction (MI) in four, and other thromboses in 28 patients. SLE was the most commonly associated rheumatic disease and accounted for 20 (12%) patients. In 124 (77%) patients no underlying rheumatic disease was identified. Isolated IgG aCL was found in 31 of 48 patients with DVT/PE (65%), but in only 21 of 82 patients with CVI (26%); p < 0.0001. IgG anti-beta(2)-GPI were detected in 23 (48%) DVT/PE patients, but in only 13 (16%) CVI patients; p < 0.001. The IgG class anti-beta(2)-GPI positive patients had significantly higher levels of IgG aCL (mean 65 units) compared to IgG anti-beta(2)-GPI negative patients (mean 29 units); p < 0.0001. In contrast, isolated IgM aCL was found in nine (19%) patients with DVT/PE, but in 46 (56%) CVI patients; p < 0.0001. Only ten patients had IgM anti-beta(2)-GPI. The present study shows that the IgG and IgM aCL isotypes seem to define different clinical subsets of patients with thrombo-embolic events with IgG aCL being most prevalent in the group having DVT/PE, IgM aCL being found primarily among CVI patients.
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