[The informativeness of determining circulating immune complexes and immunoglobulins during immunization]. / Informativnost' opredeleniia tsirkuliruiushchikh immunnykh kompleksov i immunoglobulinov v usloviiakh immunizatsii.

ABSTRACT

The authors suggest using measurements of the concentrations of circulating immune complexes (CIC) by the PEG precipitation method and of immunoglobulins by radial immunodiffusion technique for monitoring the patients after immunization with rhesus antigen (n = 20), with staphylococcal antitoxin (n = 59), and after renal allograft transplantation (n = 18). The results evidence that CIC level measurements by the PEG precipitation method are valuable in the monitoring of rhesus-immunized patients. The authors suggest including such measurements in the complex of tests for examination of rhesus-immunized donors.