1. Serum Interleukin-5 Levels in a Case with Allergic Granulomatous Angiitis
- Author
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Kiyoshi Kanazawa, Hitomi Matsumoto, Yutaro Shiota, Junichiro Hiyama, Yoshihide Kanehisa, Tetsuya Ono, Motoyuki Tanaka, Hiroto Mashiba, and Masaomi Marukawa
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Allergy ,Prednisolone ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay ,Churg-Strauss Syndrome ,Pathogenesis ,Leukocyte Count ,Immunopathology ,Internal Medicine ,Humans ,Medicine ,Glucocorticoids ,Interleukin 5 ,business.industry ,Vascular disease ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Eosinophil ,medicine.disease ,Cytokine ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Immunology ,Female ,Interleukin-5 ,business ,Biomarkers ,Follow-Up Studies ,medicine.drug - Abstract
A 50-year-old woman with allergic granulomatous angiitis (AGA) presented with an elevated serum interleukin-5 (IL-5) level upon admission to a hospital. Administration of prednisolone showed marked improvement of asthmatic symptoms, reduced eosinophil counts of peripheral blood, and normalized serum IL-5 levels. This is the first report describing an elevated serum level of IL-5 in AGA. The present findings suggest that IL-5 is involved in the pathogenesis of AGA.
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- 1997