Reliability of rapid urinary test for antibody to Helicobacter pylori in adult patients with proteinuria.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
; 54(2): 105-8, 2006 Feb.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16406182
ABSTRACT
A urinary test for detecting the anti-H. pylori antibody using immunochromatography (RAPIRAN) is considered suitable for the screening purpose. However, this may yield spurious results in the presence of proteinuria. The present study was conducted to evaluate the diagnostic performance of RAPIRAN in patients with proteinuria. Urine and serum samples of adult inpatients with proteinuria were used for analyses. The diagnosis of H. pylori infection was made based on the seropositivity of anti-H. pylori antibody using 2 different serum tests. Fifty-one subjects were eligible for analyses. The serum tests showed negative and positive in 25 and 26 patients, respectively. Two of 25 seropositive patients had a negative result in RAPIRAN, and 1 provided invalid data. All of seronegative patients showed negative in RAPIRAN. The overall accuracy was 95.0%. The present study showed that RAPIRAN has diagnostic quality enough to use clinically also in patients with proteinuria.
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Assunto principal:
Proteinúria
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Cromatografia de Afinidade
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Helicobacter pylori
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Infecções por Helicobacter
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Anticorpos Antibacterianos
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2006
Tipo de documento:
Article