In reply to:
"If you had inflammation and pain but no elevated klebs IgA then it wasn't AS.", I could assume Ebringer did not include in his studies those whom he considered did not have AS (although that is not explicitly stated). Again this assumption was not challenged.
Wally,
Ebringer was running a rheumatology clinic; he had to diagnose and treat the patient. If it wasn't AS he didn't show them the door, he had to find out what they did have, search for a better diagnosis and treat them.
Once I went to the clinic and when I sat down he said look at this, and pulled out his file on a young woman who was waiting outside. He said how when he first examined her he thought it was RA, so back in the lab his research student tested for a high level of proteus specific IgA. The test did not support the diagnosis so the student tested for klebs IgA - sky high! AS!
I think that because he was looking at things differently he used to get quite a lot of difficult cases referred to him for second opinions. The patients were not filtered out, faulty diagnoses were.
This we prescribe though no physician . . .
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