A total of 139 sera being 60 patients with liver disease were tested for auto-antibodies. Twenty six of the 60 patients had active chronic hepatitis, 19 acute hepatitis, 3 cirrhosis, 3 hepatosplenic schistosomiasis mansoni, and 9 miscelaneous liver pathology. We found positivity for smooth muscle antibody in 26 cases: smooth muscle antibody-V in 15 cases, for smooth muscle antibody-T in 9, and for smooth muscle antibody-G in 10 other patients. Nine out of 10 patients with positive smooth muscle antibody-G had chronic active hepatitis and the remaining had cirrhosis. The other kinds of smooth muscle antibodies were irregularly distributed among the different hepatic disease studied. The higher levels of auto-antibodies were found mostly in chronic hepatic disease.
BT - Arquivos de gastroenterologia C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3539072?dopt=Abstract DA - 1986 Jan-Mar IS - 1 J2 - Arq Gastroenterol LA - por N2 -A total of 139 sera being 60 patients with liver disease were tested for auto-antibodies. Twenty six of the 60 patients had active chronic hepatitis, 19 acute hepatitis, 3 cirrhosis, 3 hepatosplenic schistosomiasis mansoni, and 9 miscelaneous liver pathology. We found positivity for smooth muscle antibody in 26 cases: smooth muscle antibody-V in 15 cases, for smooth muscle antibody-T in 9, and for smooth muscle antibody-G in 10 other patients. Nine out of 10 patients with positive smooth muscle antibody-G had chronic active hepatitis and the remaining had cirrhosis. The other kinds of smooth muscle antibodies were irregularly distributed among the different hepatic disease studied. The higher levels of auto-antibodies were found mostly in chronic hepatic disease.
PY - 1986 SP - 15 EP - 20 T2 - Arquivos de gastroenterologia TI - [Anti-smooth muscle antibodies in a hospital population]. VL - 23 SN - 0004-2803 ER -