Strange combination of letters - RPGA. What it is? What analysis is it called?

Very often patients leave the cabinet with square eyes, examining a bunch of forms for the delivery of tests in their hands. The general or common analysis of a blood and the analysis of urine of questions do not cause or cause, but all the others!

For example, blood in the RPHA. What are those strange letters? Why take "extra" blood, when everything is clear?

It only seems to the patient that everything is clear, and the doctor needs to make this analysis in order to make a diagnosis.

What is this tricky analysis?

If you gave a direction with these strange letters in the form "at RPGA", what would this mean? This study is not assigned for routine diagnosis.

The analysis is very specific. It is done to determine the stage of syphilis. In the case when the conventional analysis on RW - Wasserman's reaction - turned out to be positive, or the doctor doubts that his indicator is reliable. The doctor needs the values of RPHA to prescribe adequate therapy.

What is the essence of the RPGA?

For those who want to know more about the RPGA - what it is, we give the answer. This is a specific treponemal test. If to speak the medical language, which is not quite clear to ordinary people, is the reaction of passive hemagglutination.

It was based on the fact that the agglutination of erythrocytes, on the surface of which the syphilis causative agent, called pale treponema or spirochete, found a shelter, occurs with the formation of treponemal antibodies.

Agglutination is a process in which a precipitate of any bacteria, viruses and other foreign inclusions precipitates from the blood taken under the influence of special reagents.

The more the erythrocytes settle down with the treponema introduced into them, the higher the infection stage.

What is syphilis?

Even faced with such a disease as syphilis, not everyone can understand how serious it is and what is fraught with it.

This is a venereal disease. You can get infected:

• Through saliva;
• Through the vaginal secret;
• Through sperm;
• Household pathway in the presence of damage to the surface of the skin;
• A child can be transmitted syphilis through the milk of a sick mother.

At the first stage of infection with the disease, chancres appear - dense formations or ulcers, then they disappear.

The secondary stage is characterized by a rash and an increase in the lymph nodes.

The third and fourth stages of this unpleasant disease can be expressed in the defeat of the brain, cardiovascular system, bone destruction and other pathological changes in the body.

If a pregnant woman has syphilis, then children are born with acute pathologies that affect almost all vital systems.

If the doctor has appointed to donate blood to RPGA, what it is, you can specify for general development, but you can not brush aside such a serious analysis! Syphilis requires compulsory treatment.

Those who have this disease pose a serious danger to others.

Expression-diagnosis of the disease - the reaction of Wasserman or RW - is sure to be done by everyone who gets a job or goes to hospital for treatment.

How to read the results of the analysis?

The analysis was handed over, and a form with incomprehensible numbers was issued on hand. For example, RPGA - 1/320. What can this mean?

Figures are written on the form in the event that a pale treponema is found in the body . If it is not there, the word "negative" will be written there. Hence, the disease is absent, even if the Wasserman reaction was positive.

RPHA shows the disease no earlier than 4 weeks after the introduction of treponema into the body, that is, after the end of the incubation period.

Figures of meaning are titles.

The analysis of RPHA positive will still be many years after syphilis is cured.

It is interesting

Subject specific, but also syphilis - infection is not easy. Fear of contracting them can poison life. Positive RPHA and RW are so embarrassing that some particularly nervous patients this makes you think about suicide.

Do not panic immediately! For example, the Wasserman reaction can show the presence of syphilis during pregnancy, with angina and some other diseases. It is to clarify whether there is a disease, and take additional tests, one of which - RPHA - a blood test that accurately shows whether there is treponema in the body, and what stage of the disease.

But also this research can appear inexact at some inflammatory diseases of internal organs. False positive RPHA - what can it mean other than syphilis? For example, acute inflammation of the spleen.

Therefore, having received primary results, one does not need to panic. There is a chance that after a second blood test the result will be negative.

If several specific blood tests for syphilis show a positive result, then only the infection is considered 100%.

Therefore, they conduct a comprehensive survey. It consists of:

• Wasserman's reaction;
• RPHA;
• ELISA - enzyme immunoassay;
• RIBT, which reveals syphilis in the absence of external symptoms at later stages.

Unfortunately, syphilis is a disease that can be infected several times. Immunity after the transferred disease does not appear.