Haberhauer G, Wandner G, Machacek E, Bröll H
Z. Medizin. Abteilung mit Rheumatologie und Osteologie, Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital, Stadt Wien, Osterreich.
Z Rheumatol. 1987 Nov-Dec;46(6):341-3.
The case of a female patient with the history of amanita poisoning, CRST syndrome and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is reported. Immunological features (IgM-rheumatoid factor, antinuclear-, anticentromere- and antimitochondrial antibodies) and HLA-antigens are studied. Immunological abnormalities occurring in CRST and PBC suggest a common autoimmune base, which also makes concomitance of these two disease states more than coincidental.