Patients who had elevated ANA titers were screened for other signs or symptoms of underlying autoimmune disease and ANA testing was repeated on these patients after 6 months and again after 2 years. A ...

Recent research has focused on improving the understanding of ANA patterns, their prevalence, and their role in the diagnosis of ARDs. One significant development in the field is the establishment ...

[1] During the last decades, the use of HEp-2 cells as substrates for IIF has allowed the identification of ANA patterns which are difficult or even impossible to appreciate on tissue sections ...

A healthcare professional holds up a vial of blood/Getty Images Learn more about how antibody titers affect HDFN, how they are tested and what can happen if antibody titer levels are too high. If you ...

6–9 Since we have been determining antistreptolysin-O titers routinely for our own patients as well as for patients from other hospitals and private physicians since 1939, it seemed worth while ...

Blood serum and BM supernatant from the time of study enrollment were sent to the clinical lab for ANA titer measurement. We detected ANA in 5/9 of the SLE patients and none of the 7 HD sera. The same ...

The MND ANA pattern is immunomorphologically characterized by the staining of 3–20 dots of variable size distributed throughout the cell nucleus, but sparing the nucleoli and the mitoses (Figure 2).

Fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis can cause similar symptoms like pain, reduced mobility in muscles, and exhaustion. The ...

However, using AChR-Ab titers to predict MG severity and improvement remains controversial. This study aims to explore the relationship between AChR-Ab titers and AChR-Ab rate of change (RR-AChR-Ab, % ...

Laboratory testing of a blood sample that was obtained before initiation of treatment revealed an ANA titer greater than 1:2560 with a combined homogeneous and speckled immunofluorescence staining ...