イハラ　トシコ   Toshiko Ito-Ihara   猪原　登志子    所属   川崎医科大学  医学部 応用医学　先端医療開発学    職種   教授
論文種別	原著
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
表題	A comparative study of the diagnostic accuracy of ELISA systems for the detection of anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibodies available in Japan and Europe.
掲載誌名	正式名：Clinical and experimental rheumatology 略　 称：Clin Exp Rheumatol ISSNコード：0392856X/0392856X
掲載区分	国外
巻・号・頁	26(6),pp.1027-33
著者・共著者	T Ito-Ihara, E Muso, S Kobayashi, K Uno, N Tamura, Y Yamanishi, A Fukatsu, R A Watts, D G I Scott, D R W Jayne, K Suzuki, H Hashimoto
発行年月	2008
概要	OBJECTIVES:Primary systemic vasculitis associated with anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibodies (ANCA) differs in its frequency and clinical expression between Japan and Europe. We sought to ascertain whether such differences arise from the performance of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for ANCA.METHODS:Plasma samples from 64 consecutive Japanese patients with a clinical and histological diagnosis of primary systemic vasculitis including microscopic polyangiitis (MPA; n=52), Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS; n=1), and Wegener's granulomatosis (WG; n=11), or those from disease controls with non-vasculitic glomerulonephritis (n=54) and healthy controls (n=55) were tested for the presence of myeloperoxidase (MPO) by ELISAs available in Japan (Nipro and MBL) and compared with those in Europe (Wieslab). The sensitivity and specificity were calculated for each ELISA, and its diagnostic performance was assessed by receiver operating characteristic curve analysis.RESULTS:The sensitivity and specificity of either MPO-ANCA assays for a diagnosis of MPA were 90.4% and 98.2% (Nipro), 88.2% and 96.3% (MBL), and 86.5% and 99.1% (Wieslab). The overall diagnostic performance, assessed as the area under curve of the MPO-ANCA ELISAs for MPA were 0.946+/-0.022 (Nipro), 0.970+/-0.017 (MBL), and 0.971+/-0.017 (Wieslab), while that of PR3-ANCA ELISAs for WG were 0.986+/-0.025 (Nipro), 0.993+/-0.017 (MBL), and 0.916+/-0.059 (Wieslab).CONCLUSIONS:The MPO-ANCA ELISAs commercially available in Japan exhibited high sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of ANCA-associated vasculitides and provided similar diagnostic value to those in Europe. These results facilitate further international comparison of ANCA-associated vasculitides between Japanese and European populations.
PMID	19210866