Serositis

03/01/2009 - "Over the next weeks she developed serositis, joint, cutaneous, and renal involvement; positive antinuclear antibodies and high anti-SSA/Ro titers. "
06/01/2000 - "In conclusion, although a negative antinuclear antibodies test makes a diagnosis of lupus serositis unlikely, high antinuclear antibodies titres in pleural or pericardial fluid are not diagnostic of lupus serositis even when as high as 1:5,120. "
12/01/2001 - "At diagnosis, Caucasian SLE patients were 3 times more likely than Chinese SLE patients to have serositis (odds ratio [OR] 3.11, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.01-9.71), nearly 7 times more likely to have a hematologic disorder (OR 6.95, 95% CI 2.20-21.97), and far less likely to have a malar rash (OR 0.19, 95% CI 0.07-0.54) or positive antinuclear antibodies (OR 0.11, 95% CI 0.03-0.52). "
06/01/1984 - "Systemic lupus erythematosus presenting as chronic serositis with no demonstrable antinuclear antibodies."
03/01/2015 - "The CP group had higher frequencies of arthritis, serositis, and nephritis, and a higher prevalence of anti-DNA antibodies compared to the AP group (arthritis: 50.0% vs. 13.0%, p = 0.0014; serositis: 37.5% vs. 13.0%, p = 0.0257; nephritis: 63.6% vs. 21.7%, p = 0.0003; anti-DNA antibodies: 73.9% vs. 30.4%, p = 0.0001). "

01/01/2015 - "These results suggest that Yinzhihuang injection ameliorates RA-induced infectious serositis in ducks by modulation of inflammatory mediators and antioxidation. "
01/01/2015 - "The molecular basis by which Yinzhihuang injection could cure Riemerella anatipestifer (RA) serositis in ducks is unclear. "
01/01/2015 - "This study evaluated the antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects of Yinzhihuang injection, using disease models of RA-induced infectious serositis in ducks and heptane-induced inflammation in mice and rats. "

10/01/1995 - "Tuberculosis DNA by PCR might be helpful in the diagnosis of tuberculous serositis and urinary tract mycobacterial infection."
10/01/2007 - "She was diagnosed as having systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus peritonitis based on anti ds-DNA antibody, ANA positive, serositis and renal dysfunction. "
01/01/2006 - "Different clinical manifestations and serological parameters of lupus disease activity were more frequent in patients with free hyperprolactinaemia than in patients with normal serum free PRL levels (such as neurological manifestations, renal involvement, serositis, haematological manifestations, anti-double-stranded DNA and hypocomplementaemia; P<0.021). "
01/01/1996 - "Tests for anti-nuclear antibody and anti-DNA antibody were positive, which, in addition to serositis and proteinuria, established the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus. "
02/01/1999 - "psittsci antibody, while characteristics of pleural fluid revealed serositis accompanied by SLE because of the high titered anti-DNA antibody and the low titered complement. "

03/01/2001 - "Addition of Ursodiol to high-dose IBU and normal doses of PE showed a significant reduction in the percentage of rats with ulcers (P < 0.05), total number of serositis events (P < 0.01), total number of severe ulcers (P < 0.001), and an absence of ulcers in the large intestine. "

09/01/2002 - "Methylprednisolone pulse therapy was effective in improving the serositis and normalizing CRP. "

01/01/1989 - "[Diagnostic efficacy of adenosine deaminase (ADA) in tuberculous serositis]."

01/01/2004 - "'No shows' to rheumatology were associated with non-Caucasian ethnicity, younger age, single marital status, lack of home ownership, 'no shows' to other clinics and to the LUMINA study, greater disease activity and to some disease manifestations (serositis, renal involvement, positive anti-dsDNA antibodies). "
01/01/2003 - "It is suggested that deficiency of C4A (not due to a 2 bp insertion in exon 29), but not C4B or C2, may be a risk factor for acquiring SLE in south west Han Chinese; this results in increased risk of renal disorder, serositis, and anti-dsDNA antibodies in patients with SLE. "
01/01/2003 - "Patients with the C4AQ0 gene had an increased risk of acquiring renal disorder, serositis, and anti-dsDNA antibodies compared with those without C4AQ0 (for renal disorder, p=0.018, OR=8.951, 95% CI 1.132 to 70.804; for serositis, p=0.011, OR 4.891, 95% CI 1.574 to 15.198; for anti-dsDNA, p=0.004, OR 7.630, 95%CI 1.636 to 35.584). "
05/01/1996 - "Anti-La antibodies showed a weak negative association with serositis and Raynaud's phenomenon. "
03/01/1996 - "Anti-La antibodies showed a weak negative association with serositis and Raynaud's phenomenon. "

09/01/2008 - "In patients with active tuberculous serositis, antigen-specific IFN-gamma responses of cavity fluid samples were significantly higher than those of nontuberculous effusion samples. "
12/15/2007 - "In patients with active tuberculous serositis, antigen-specific IFN-gamma responses of cavity fluid samples were significantly higher than those of nontuberculous effusion samples. "
02/01/2010 - "We report a patient who developed multiple serositis during chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation from a non-inherited maternal antigen (NIMA) -complementary sibling donor. "
02/01/2010 - "[Chronic graft-versus-host disease with multiple serositis after bone marrow transplantation from non-inherited maternal antigen-complementary sibling donor]."
01/01/2011 - "The aim of this study was to determine the usefulness of cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) serum levels in patients with tuberculosis (TB) with and without tuberculous serositis. "

09/01/2010 - "Adult-onset Still disease typically present high fever, arthralgia, rash, pharyngitis and serositis, lymphadenopathy and hepatosplenomegaly, inflammatory markers and hepatic enzymes elevation and negative immunological study. "
01/01/2006 - "Anti-Ro antibodies were related with the presence of discoid lupus, serositis, pneumonitis, elevated liver enzymes, hemolytic anaemia, leukopenia and lymphopenia. "

01/01/1983 - "Immune complex-like material can be removed in peritoneal dialysate, which may contribute to the lower CIC levels and lower incidence of serositis in the CAPD patients."
01/01/1983 - "It is suggested that immune complexes may be the 'uremic toxins' responsible for the serositis of renal failure, and may be secreted into serous effusions. "
04/14/1977 - "Vasculitis and serositis follow the deposition of immune complexes to membranes. "
01/01/1983 - "Circulating immune complexes: possible toxins responsible for serositis (pericarditis, pleuritis, and peritonitis) in renal failure."
01/01/1983 - "In 71 patients (41 men, 30 women) with advanced renal failure maintained on hemodialysis (HD), continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), or within 8 weeks after the commencement of dialysis therapy (ED), studies were performed searching for evidence of serositis and the blood levels of circulating immune complexes (CIC), measured by the polyethylene glycol precipitation method. "

01/01/1983 - "Serositides were significantly more prevalent in ED patients compared to both remaining groups, and tended to occur less frequently in CAPD than in HD patients. "
03/01/1999 - "These cases suggest that autoimmune diseases, such as SLE, that are well known to cause immune-mediated serositis may represent an additional factor predisposing to the development of sclerosing peritonitis in patients treated with CAPD."
01/01/1993 - "Lupus serositis/mesenteric vasculitis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a CAPD patient with SLE who presents with abdominal pain but benign cell counts and cultures. "
01/01/1983 - "Immune complex-like material can be removed in peritoneal dialysate, which may contribute to the lower CIC levels and lower incidence of serositis in the CAPD patients."
01/01/1983 - "In 71 patients (41 men, 30 women) with advanced renal failure maintained on hemodialysis (HD), continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), or within 8 weeks after the commencement of dialysis therapy (ED), studies were performed searching for evidence of serositis and the blood levels of circulating immune complexes (CIC), measured by the polyethylene glycol precipitation method. "

01/01/1983 - "Hepatitis B virus: a possible cause of serositis in hemodialysis patients."
01/01/1983 - "An epidemiologic survey in a maintenance hemodialysis population of 300 patients was undertaken to relate the appearance of acute serositis (pericarditis, pleuritis or ascites) to HBsAg antigenemia. "
01/01/1983 - "In 71 patients (41 men, 30 women) with advanced renal failure maintained on hemodialysis (HD), continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), or within 8 weeks after the commencement of dialysis therapy (ED), studies were performed searching for evidence of serositis and the blood levels of circulating immune complexes (CIC), measured by the polyethylene glycol precipitation method. "

02/01/2006 - "Nine (43%) study patients had active serositis in their colectomy specimens, whereas only 1 (6%) control patient had this finding (P = 0.002). "

08/01/2015 - "We searched our institutional database for patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant identified as having serositis or pericarditis. "
09/01/2014 - "Kaposi sarcoma can cause concomitant serositis in kidney transplant patients and should be considered as a differential diagnosis. "
01/01/2005 - "Vascular leak syndrome and serositis as an unusual manifestation of chronic graft-versus-host disease in nonmyeloablative transplants."

03/01/2013 - "Although linked with perforation, serositis, delayed bleeding, and incomplete resection, hot biopsy forceps electrocauterization (HBF) is still widely used for diminutive colonic polypectomy. "
12/01/2009 - "Small flat nonpolypoid lesions of the colorectum can be technically difficult to target and completely remove; techniques such as hot biopsy forceps electrocauterization are associated with serositis, delayed bleeding, and perforation. "