The role of metals in autoimmune vasculitis: epidemiological and pathogenic study

The Science of the Total Environment
P StrattaB Fubini

Abstract

A possible relationship between Silica (Si) exposure and antineutrophil cytoplasm antibodies (ANCA)-associated vasculitis has been reported. Furthermore, tuberculosis (TBC) has been frequently described in patients with silicosis, and TBC infection shares with ANCA-associated vasculitis the formation of granulomas. Therefore, an intriguing network including Silica, Vasculitis, TBC and ANCA might be hypothesized. The aim of this work was to further investigate these correlations using both epidemiological and pathogenic approaches. Study I--epidemiological study. A case-control study to compare the occupational histories of 31 cases of biopsy proven vasculitis (18 pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis, 9 microscopic polyangitis, 4 Wegener's granulomatosis) with those of 58 age, sex and residence-matched controls (affected by other kidney diseases), was performed. Occupational Health physicians designed an appropriate questionnaire in order to evaluate a wide spread of exposures and calculate their entity by the product of Intensity x Frequency x Duration. Study II--tuberculosis association. A case-control study to evaluate the frequency of a previous history of tuberculosis (TBC) in 45 patients with vasculitis and 45 contro...Continue Reading

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