Immune Complex
A Sickness in the Serum, Part 3: The Search for Immune Complexes
The final episode in this trilogy delves into the advancement in lab techniques that allowed for more accurate measurements of immune complexes, leading to studies that clearly demonstrated the potential pathogenicity of immune complex-mediated disease.
A Sickness in the Serum, Part 2: The Birth of Immune Complex Disease
The second episode in the series delves into the experiments and observations of Dr. Clemens (Baron) von Pirquet who first proposed that antibodies and antigens join forces to cause wreak havoc.
Infectious Endocarditis for the Rheumatologist, Part 3: The Immune System Behaving Badly
The completion of the Endocarditis for the Rheumatologist trilogy! This episode focuses on the glomerulonephritis of endocarditis as well as the immunologic abnormalities you can see on labs.
Mitochondrial abnormalities a prognostic marker for juvenile dermatomyositis
ATLANTA — Patients with juvenile dermatomyositis demonstrate obvious mitochondrial abnormalities in the tissue and periphery, supporting the use of anti-mitochondrial antibodies as a prognostic marker, according to data presented at ACR/ARP 2019.