Frequent induction of insulin autoantibodies by D-penicillamine in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
1992
D-Penicillamine is a drug known to induce various immunological abnormalities. We used a competitive radiobinding assay, to evaluate the presence of insulin autoantibodies in 42 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), under various treatment modalities. In 11/42 (26.2%) patients, the levels of insulin autoantibodies (range 59-1970 nU/ml) exceeded our upper limit of normal range (50 nU/ml). Nine of these 11 (81.8%) insulin autoantibodies positive patients had been treated with D-penicillamine
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