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No serum IgA was detected in a young male patient suffering from spondylarthropathy (SpA) with bilateral sacroiliitis arthritis, enthesopathy and inflammatory low back pain, whose symptoms occurred in reaction to a sexually induced urethritis. After a period of several months in which the spondylarthropathy was active, disease activity came to a rest. Three years later no progression of the SpA was observed. This finding might be an indication that IgA is not involved in the pathogenesis of spondylarthropathy.
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Sprenkels, S.H.D., Linssen, A. & Feltkamp, T.E.W. Spondylarthropathy and selective lgA deficiency. Rheumatol Int 14, 261–263 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00262094
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