{"doi":"10.1101/2021.11.03.21265769","title":"Autoantibodies Detected in MIS-C Patients due to Administration of Intravenous Immunoglobulin","abstract":"Abstract The autoantibody profile associated with known autoimmune diseases in patients with COVID-19 or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) remains poorly defined. Here we show that adults with COVID-19 had a moderate prevalence of autoantibodies against the lung antigen KCNRG, and SLE-associated Smith autoantigen. Children with COVID-19 rarely had autoantibodies; one of 59 children had GAD65 autoantibodies associated with acute insulin-dependent diabetes. While autoantibodies associated with SLE/Sjögren’s syndrome (Ro52, Ro60, and La) and/or autoimmune gastritis (gastric ATPase) were detected in 74% (40/54) of MIS-C patients, further analysis of these patients and of children with Kawasaki disease (KD), showed that the administration of intravenous immunoglobulin ( IVIG) was largely responsible for detection of these autoantibodies in both groups of patients. Monitoring in vivo decay of the autoantibodies in MIS-C children showed that the IVIG-derived Ro52, Ro60, and La autoantibodies declined to undetectable levels by 45-60 days, but gastric ATPase autoantibodies declined more slowly requiring >100 days until undetectable. Together these findings demonstrate that administration of high-dose IVIG is responsible for the detection of several autoantibodies in MIS-C and KD. Further studies are needed to investigate autoantibody production in MIS-C patients, independently from IVIG administration.","journal":"medRxiv","year":2021,"id":216908,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":4,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.956,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":104210,"name":"Riccardo Castagnoli","orcid":"0000-0003-0029-9383","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":104791,"name":"Chisato Shimizu","orcid":"0000-0002-3149-2699","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":104168,"name":"Ottavia M. 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