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Serum Interleukin-5 Levels in a Case with Allergic Granulomatous Angiitis
- Source :
- Internal Medicine. 36:709-711
- Publication Year :
- 1997
- Publisher :
- Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, 1997.
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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.
- Subjects :
- 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
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13497235 and 09182918
- Volume :
- 36
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Internal Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....18251a6f874747592559ee83dd8af939