An ANA report has three parts: (1) a positive or negative result; (2) if positive, what the titer is; and (3) the pattern of fluorescence. ANA patterns. Titers and patterns can vary between laboratory ...

New research highlights the potential importance of ordering more than one type of antinuclear antibody (ANA) test when clinicians are screening for lupus. ANAs are a type of antibody that are found ...

In Brazilian patients with a variety of known ARDs (N=138; 87 with systemic lupus erythematosus, 45 with systemic sclerosis, 11 with Sjögren syndrome, and 10 with inflammatory myopathy) and healthy ...

The present study reports the results of an investigation of the immunoglobulin class of antinuclear factor and pattern of nuclear fluorescence in 100 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. The ...

January 12, 2011 — Up to 13% of healthy people test positive for antinuclear antibodies (ANA), which are associated with autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren's syndrome, or ...

A very small number of people who test negative for antinuclear antibody (ANA) in the blood, which is a sign of the most common type of lupus, still have the condition. Lupus is an autoimmune disease ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex autoimmune disorder uniformly characterized by the production of autoantibodies directed against a host of cellular proteins. Several of these ...

Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can attack the skin, joints, organs, nervous system, blood cells, kidneys, or some combination of body systems. The term "lupus" commonly refers to systemic lupus ...