Anti-erythropoietin antibody level in maintenance dialysis patients and its clinical significance
PENG Zhi-yuan, ZHANG Yi-ling, ZHAO Jiu-yang.
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Department of Nephrology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Dalin Medical University, Dalin 116027, ChinaCorresponding author: ZHANG Yi-ling, Email: zhangyl0704@sina.com
Objective To investigate the anti-erythropoietin antibody level and its clinical significance in maintenance dialysis patients. Methods Eighty maintenance hemodialysis (HD) and 30 peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients were enrolled in the study. Serum anti-erythropoietin antibody levels of above 110 dialysis patients were measured by ELISA. Immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (iPTH), Scr, BUN, Hb, and CRP were determined by conventional methods at the same time. Correlations among these indexes were examined. Results The anti-erythropoietin antibody levels of the dialysis patients were significantly higher than those of healthy people (P＜0.05), but no significant difference was found between HD patients and PD patients. There were no significant differences of anti-erythropoietin antibody, Hb, BUN, Scr, iPTH and CRP among different primary diseases. Hb was negatively correlated with anti-erythropoietin antibody and CRP (r=-0.56, -0.20，P＜0.05), but was not correlated with BUN, Scr, iPTH. There was no correlation of anti-erythropoietin antibody with BUN, Scr, CRP and iPTH. One patient receiving recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) treatment with anti-erythropoietin antibody 43.63 U/L developed pure red cell aplasia diagnosed by marrow biopsy. Conclusions The anti-erythropoietin antibody levels of the dialysis patients are significantly higher as compared to healthy people, but are not significantly different between HD and PD patients. Anti-erythropoietin antibody is not correlated with BUN, Scr, iPTH and CRP. Hb is negatively correlated with anti-erythropoietin antibody and CRP. The rHuEPO can induce the anti-erythropoietin antibody leading to pure red cell aplasia in dialysis patients.
PENG Zhi-yuan;ZHANG Yi-ling;ZHAO Jiu-yang. .
Anti-erythropoietin antibody level in maintenance dialysis patients and its clinical significance [J]. Chinese Journal of Nephrology, 2011, 27(7): 511-514.
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