Abstract
Purpose. Optimizing the sensitivity of immunopathologic methods in detecting target antigens in immune-mediated cicatrizing conjunctivitis.Methods. Immunofluorescence was performed on normal and salt-split conjunctival biopsies in fifteen patients with clinical evidence of ocular cicatricial pemphigoid, and results were compared with immunoperoxidase, a technique thought to be more sensitive although more expensive and more difficult technically to perform.Results. Ten of fifteen biopsies (67%) were positive when conventional and salt-split immunofluorescence results were combined. Four of eight patients with positive conventional immunofluorescence showed more marked immunofluorescence with the salt-split method. All patients were positive with immunoperoxidase (100%).Conclusion. Immunoperoxidase was more sensitive than conventional or salt-split immunofluorescence in detecting immunoreactant deposition along the basement membrane of the conjunctiva. Salt-split immunofluorescence demonstrated more intense staining of conjunctival samples when compared with conventional immunofluorescence, without however increasing the yield of positive biopsies. Finding solutions for the proper handling of conjunctival tissue in salt may improve the diagnostic yield of salt-split immunofluorescence. Curr. Eye Res. 17:823–827, 1998.
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