When an ANA-positive patient is referred to a busy rheumatology practice, there is no sense of urgency if other lupus-suggestive symptoms or laboratory tests are not present. In some rheumatology ...

Does ANA-negative lupus exist? More important is that physicians evaluate and treat patients based on symptoms and history rather than a single blood test.

The ANA blood test is used to detect the presence of antinuclear antibodies which may be associated with specific autoimmune diseases.

ANA-negative lupus occurs when the antinuclear antibody test comes back negative but the person exhibits signs and symptoms consistent with lupus.

While your ANA test can be positive if you have MS, it’s used more to rule out lupus as a cause of your symptoms, not to help diagnose MS. MS and lupus are similar in other ways too: ...

O nce clinical suspicion has been established for primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), the " serologic hallmark " of the ...

All blood donors testing ANA-positive on IF, and/or showing any positive ANA fine specificity, in combination with relevant self-reported symptoms of rheumatic disease in the questionnaire were ...

Orange County vector control inspectors Tuesday were keeping a close watch on mosquito populations in a section of Santa Ana, where some samples of the insects tested positive for West Nile virus ...

Joint pain alongside a positive antinuclear antibody (ANA) test may suggest the presence of an underlying condition causing pain and discomfort.

Methods Bulk RNA-sequencing of peripheral blood mononuclear cells isolated at baseline from 35 ANA positive (ANA+) subjects with non-diagnostic symptoms was analysed using differential gene expression ...