Gastric parietal cell and thyroid autoantibodies in patients with atrophic glossitis.
CONCLUSION: Approximately 55.3% of 1064 AG patients have serum GPCA/TGA/TMA positivity. Because part of GPCA-positive AG patients may develop pernicious anemia, autoimmune atrophic gastritis, and gastric carcinoma, and part of TGA/TMA-positive AG patients may have thyroid dysfunction such as hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, these autoantibody-positive AG patients should be referred to medical doctors for further management.
PMID: 30736997 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: J Formos Med Assoc - Category: General Medicine Authors: Chiang CP, Yu-Fong Chang J, Wang YP, Wu YH, Wu YC, Sun A Tags: J Formos Med Assoc Source Type: research
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