A STUDY OF ACUTE-PHASE REACTANT PROTEINS IN INDONESIAN PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
A STUDY OF ACUTE-PHASE REACTANT PROTEINS IN INDONESIAN PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
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10.1016/0041-3879(84)90027-8
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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SETIABUDI, I
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GRANGE, JM;KARDJITO, T;SETIABUDI, I
The levels of 8 acute phase reactants (.alpha.1-antitrypsin, .alpha.2-macroglobulin, transferrin, .alpha.1-acid glycoprotein, C-reactive protein, ceruloplasmin, haptoglobin and the 3rd component of complement [C3]) and IgG, IgM and IgA were assayed, by laser nephelometry, in sera from 107 East Javanese patients with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis and 144 healthy subjects. These levels were correlated with clinical, hematologic and radiologic features, the levels of antibody to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the diameters of the tuberculin skin test read at various times. Levels of all acute phase reactants increased significantly in tuberculosis except for that of transferrin which was lowered. The correlations between the various acute phase reactants in health and disease were calculated. In general, the correlations were lower in disease than in health, except for C3 and a greatly increased correlation between the levels of .alpha.1-antitrypsin and ceruloplasmin. There was a significant correlation between levels of some of the acute phase reactants and those of antibodies to M. tuberculosis, mainly with IgG, less with IgA and least with IgM antibodies. Correlations between acute phase protein and total Ig levels were most evident in the IgM class, less with IgA and not at all with IgG. Although there were some associations between protein levels and age, sex and weight of controls and patients, these were not great enough to account for the differences between the 2 groups. There was a tendency for patients, but not controls, with intestinal helminthiasis to have higher levels of total IgM than those without evidence of parasites. In general, the levels of proteins bore very little relation to the clinical and radiologic features of disease and were, with the exception of the antimycobacterial antibodies, of no diagnostic value. Protein levels were not associated with the extent of disease; better correlations were found with the erythrocyte sedimentation rate and leukocyte count. Transferrin levels tended to be higher in those with chronic disease and showed a correlation with the diameters of the dermal reactions to tuberculin at 24 h, which were also significantly larger in chronic disease. Among the hematologic findings, the most significant was a negative correlation between the lymphocyte count and haptoglobin levels in disease, suggesting a possible regulatory role for this protein.