.... Clinical diagnoses included the purpura-weakness-arthralgias syndrome, posthepatitis cirrhosis, congestive heart failure and mitral stenosis. The cryocrit differed in the four sisters, ranging from 3 to 16%; in addition, rheumatoid factor activity was consistently associated with both washed...

... antibodies, anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA), anti-cardiolipin and anti-thyroid antibodies. Serum levels of rheumatoid factor, C-reactive protein (CRP) and complement factors C3 and C4 ranged within normal limits in the patients studied, but a highly significant correlation was noted between...