DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 58-year-old healthy female. I am 6 feet tall, and weigh 130 pounds. My last blood pressure reading was 100/58. I have Raynaud’s phenomenon. I exercise every day (walk, bike, ...

“This research is important to people with lupus as it adds greater insight onto ANA testing and the meaning of changes in the ANA titer over time. If we can determine that changes in the ANA titer ...

On repeat blood testing, the patient had a 4+ positive ANA titer and 4+ antibodies to double-stranded DNA with low C3 and C4 complement, all consistent with the clinical picture of systemic lupus ...

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 ...

An ANA should be ordered whenever there is a strong clinical suspicion of autoimmune disease. In other words, a high pretest probability of the ANA being positive based on the clinician’s suspicion ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 58-year-old healthy female. I am 6 feet tall, and weigh 130 pounds. My last blood pressure reading was 100/58. I have Raynaud's phenomenon. I exercise every day (walk, bike, ...