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Lawrence S. Kahn, MD; T. F. Schlaegel, Jr, MD; Janet C. Weber, PhD; Angenieta Biegel, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1983;101(3):458-459.

Abstract
• Sixty-two percent of 975 uveitis patients had a statistically significant elevation in the levels of one or more of three serum immunoglobulins. The percentage of cases of above-normal values was greatest for IgM (43.8%), followed by IgA (34.0%), and then by IgG (11.9%). There was no statistically significant difference in immunoglobulin values obtained for one diagnosis as compared with all others, except for men with HLA-B27. They had a higher percent of elevated IgM values than men with all other diagnoses. Testing for immunoglobulins is of little or no value in the etiologic diagnosis of a single case of uveitis, but may be of value in research studies to better understand its pathogenesis.

Author Affiliations
From the Uveitis Service, Department of Ophthalmology (Drs Kahn, Schlaegel, and Weber) and the Department of Medicine (Dr Biegel), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication April 15, 1982.

Read in part before the spring meeting of the American Uveitis Society, Lake Tahoe, Calif, March 6, 1981.

Reprints not available.

This study was supported in part by a grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc, New York.

Computer time for this study was provided by Computing Services, Indiana University, Indianapolis.

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