Clinical Investigation

Kidney International (1990) 38, 323–331; doi:10.1038/ki.1990.204

Polymeric IgA and immune complex concentrations in IgA-related renal disease

Colin L Jones1, Harley R Powell1, Priscilla Kincaid-Smith1 and Don M Roberton1

1Department of Paediatrics, Royal Children's Hospital and Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Australia

Correspondence: Dr Colin Jones, Department of Nephrology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8.

Received 28 July 1989; Revised 22 January 1990; Accepted 7 March 1990.

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Abstract

Polymeric IgA and immune complex concentrations in IgA-related renal disease. Polymeric IgA (PIgA) and immune complex concentrations in IgA-related renal disease were measured in cross sectional and longitudinal studies to establish the relationship between these parameters and both mucosal infection and renal dysfunction. These studies were performed in 50 patients with IgA nephropathy (IgAN), 17 patients with Henoch Schönlein purpura nephritis (HSPN), 11 control patients with IgA negative, diffuse mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis (DMPGN) and 50 healthy controls. Total PIgA (PIgAT) and PIgA subclass concentrations were measured using a secretory component binding enzyme immunoassay and isotype specific immune complex concentrations were measured using conglutinin (K) binding immunoassays. In cross sectional studies patients with IgAN were found to have increased concentrations of PIgAT, PIgA1, K-IgA1 and K-IgA2 compared to controls. In the longitudinal studies controls and patients had significant increases in PIgAT and PIgA1 concentrations during infection. However, in patients with IgAN, the increases were greater, persisted for longer, and PIgA2 concentrations were also increased. K-IgA1 and K-IgA2 concentrations increased significantly during episodes of infection in IgAN patients in contrast to controls. Patients with HSPN had results similar to those of IgAN patients. No significant correlation was found between PIgA or K-IgA concentrations, and either serum creatinine concentrations or the degree of hematuria. The results indicate that patients with IgA-related renal disease have abnormal regulation of PIgA and immune complexed IgA, and that these abnormalities are exaggerated during mucosal infection.

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