Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Antibodies against PM/Scl-75 and PM/Scl-100 are independent markers for different subsets of systemic sclerosis patients. | Available online http content 11 1 R22 Research article Antibodies against PM Scl-75 and PM Scl-100 are independent markers for different subsets of systemic sclerosis patients Katharina Hanke1 Claudia S Bruckner1 Cornelia Dahnrich2 Dorte Huscher3 Lars Komorowski2 Wolfgang Meyer2 Anthonia Janssen2 Marina Backhaus1 Mike Becker1 Angela Kill1 Karl Egerer1 Gerd R Burmester1 Falk Hiepe1 Wolfgang Schlumberger2 and Gabriela Riemekasten1 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Charité Universitatsmedizin Humboldt University Berlin Chariteplatz 1 Berlin 10117 Germany 2EUROIMMUN AG Seekamp 31 Lubeck 23560 Germany 3German Rheumatology Research Centre Chariteplatz 1 Berlin 10117 Germany Corresponding author Gabriela Riemekasten Received 23 Oct 2008 Revisions requested 19 Nov 2008 Revisions received 13 Jan 2009 Accepted 16 Feb 2009 Published 16 Feb 2009 Arthritis Research Therapy 2009 11 R22 doi ar2614 This article is online at http content 11 1 R22 2009 Hanke et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction Anti-PM Scl antibodies are present in sera from patients with polymyositis PM systemic sclerosis SSc and PM SSc overlap syndromes. The prevalence of antibodies against the 75- and 100-kDa PM Scl proteins and their clinical associations have not been studied in SSc patients in detail so far but could provide a valuable tool for risk assessment in these patients. Furthermore it remains speculative whether commercially available test systems detecting only anti-PM Scl-100 antibodies are sufficient in SSc patients. Methods Two hundred eighty sera from SSc patients patients with other connective tissue