Abstract
With the purpose to clarify the immunological disturbances being behind the several pulmonary diseases, studies were made on autoantibodies (RA test, LE phenomenon, LE test, ANA, DNA test and others) and hypergammaglobulinemia found in 55 cases (one of acute bronchitis,8 of chronic bronchitis,16 of pneumonia,2 of interstitial pneumonitis,6 of pulmonary fibrosis,4 of pneumoconiosis,15 of pulmonary tuberculosis, and 3 of pulmonary emphysema) which had been treated in our department during the last 8 years.
Several autoantibodies and hypergammaglobulinem ia were found not only in chronic pulmonary diseases as reported in several literatures, but also in acute pulmonary diseases such as pneumonia; i. e. RA test 37.5%, DNA test 1/16, ANA (2) */16 (* titers were low, lox) and hypergammaglobulinemia 30.8%.
Above mentioned findings seem to suggest that further studies on immunological disturbances would be necessary not only in chronic pulmonary diseases such as chronic bronchitis and pulmonary fibrosis, but also in acute pulmonary diseases such as pneumonia.
