Research Topics
| A S WiikSummaryAffiliation: Statens Serum Institut Country: Denmark Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
Laboratory diagnostics in vasculitis patientsA Wiik
Department of Autoimmunology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
Isr Med Assoc J 3:275-7. 2001..ANCA-related SVV and drug-induced vasculitis or lupus syndromes have characteristic ANCA profiles that can help distinguish these conditions from other inflammatory diseases...
Environmental risk factors differ between rheumatoid arthritis with and without auto-antibodies against cyclic citrullinated peptidesMerete Pedersen
Department of Epidemiology Research, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
Arthritis Res Ther 8:R133. 2006..Major differences in risk factor profiles suggest distinct etiologies for anti-CCP-positive and anti-CCP-negative RA...- [Diagnostic strategies for autoimmune rheumatic diseases]A S Wiik
Department of Autoimmunology, Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, 2300 Copenhagen S, Danemark
Z Rheumatol 66:219-20, 222-4. 2007..Late or wrong decisions during follow-up lead to unnecessary suffering and far higher lifetime costs for chronic diseases such as those found in rheumatology... - European attempts to set guidelines for improving diagnostics of autoimmune rheumatic disordersA Wiik
Department of Autoimmunology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lupus 15:391-6. 2006..European efforts to secure rational diagnostic work-up in autoimmune rheumatic disease have led to a better dialogue between clinicians and laboratory scientists in several countries... - Clinical and laboratory characteristics of drug-induced vasculitic syndromesAllan Wiik
Department of Autoimmunology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
Arthritis Res Ther 7:191-2. 2005..Clinically, skin vasculitis and arthralgias predominated and renal vasculitis was rare... - Anti-nuclear autoantibodies: clinical utility for diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring, and planning of treatment strategy in systemic immunoinflammatory diseasesA S Wiik
Department of Autoimmunology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen S, Denmark
Scand J Rheumatol 34:260-8. 2005..Borders between positive and negative values should aim at attaining a high diagnostic specificity towards clinically important disease controls... - Systemic small vessel vasculitis: pathophysiological aspects of antineutrophil cytoplasm antibodies (ANCA). A review on recent findingsA Wiik
Department of Autoimmunology, Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
Autoimmun Rev 3:S51-3. 2004 - Cutting edge diagnostics in rheumatology: the role of patients, clinicians, and laboratory scientists in optimizing the use of autoimmune serologyAllan S Wiik
Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
Arthritis Rheum 51:291-8. 2004 - Appropriateness of autoantibody testing in clinical medicineAllan S Wiik
Department of Autoimmunology, Statens Serum Institut, Bldg 81, 5th Floor, Room 544, Artillerivej 5, DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
Clin Chim Acta 333:177-80. 2003..Pathologically expressed autoantibodies reflect ongoing immune-mediated inflammation in patients and may even be regarded as surrogate markers of disease prognosis and clinical outcome in certain clinical settings... - Neutrophil-specific autoantibodies in chronic inflammatory bowel diseasesAllan Wiik
Department of Autoimmunology, Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
Autoimmun Rev 1:67-72. 2002..Laboratory reports on NSA-positivity must be clearly distinguishable from reports on ANCA to help avoid clinical misinterpretation... - Autoantibodies in vasculitisAllan Wiik
Department of Autoimmunology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
Arthritis Res Ther 5:147-52. 2003..Although autoantibodies to endothelial cells may be important players in the pathogenesis of several vasculitic conditions, they have not gained clinical popularity because of lack of standardized detection methods... - [Laboratory diagnostics in rheumatology]Allan Wiik
Autoimmunafdelingen, Statens Serum Institut, bygning 81, rum 544, Artillerivej 5, DK 2300 København S
Ugeskr Laeger 164:610-4. 2002..A clinically important use of serodiagnostics can only be implemented by a close collaboration between clinicians and laboratory specialists. A tentative diagnosis is the best basis for ordering and interpreting laboratory results... - Clinical use of serological tests for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies. What do the studies say?A S Wiik
Department of Autoimmunology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rheum Dis Clin North Am 27:799-813, vi-vii. 2001..Local serum banks containing samples from patients with well-characterized chronic immunoinflammatory diseases and ANCA-associated vasculitides are needed for such important studies whether in-house or commercial assays are used... - Distinct differences in autoantigen specificity of anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibodies in systemic vasculitides and other inflammatory diseasesA Wiik
Department of Autoimmunology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
Isr Med Assoc J 1:4-7. 1999..Anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibodies in necrotizing vasculitides need to be distinguished from ANCAs in other inflammatory conditions to avoid clinical misinterpretation... - The immune response to citrullinated proteins in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: genetic, clinical, technical, and epidemiological aspectsAllan S Wiik
Department of Autoimmunology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen S, Denmark
Clin Rev Allergy Immunol 32:13-22. 2007..The antibody can sometimes be found several years before the onset of clinical symptoms of RA, which may represent an open window for preventive measures to be taken...