Coremans I E, Hagen E C, van der Woude F J, Daha M R, van der Voort E A, Kleyburg-van der Keur C, Breedveld F C
Department of Rheumatology and Nephrology, University Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 1993;336:357-62. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4757-9182-2_60.
Anti-lactoferrin antibodies (anti-LF Ab) are more frequently found in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) complicated by vasculitis when compared to patients with uncomplicated RA. Therefore the detection of anti-LF Ab in serum of patients with RA may be useful in the diagnosis of vasculitis in RA patients.