Clinical significance of antinuclear antibodies. Comparison of detection with immunofluorescence and enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assays

W Emlen, L O'Neill - Arthritis & Rheumatism: Official Journal of …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Measurement of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) has been widely used to provide supporting
evidence of a diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and the presence of ANA is …

Antinuclear antibody testing: a study of clinical utility

CA Slater, RB Davis, RH Shmerling - Archives of Internal …, 1996 - jamanetwork.com
… Objective: To determine the clinical utility of the antinuclear antibody (ANA) test as ordered
… Diagnostic and prognostic significance of different antinuclear antibodies in more than 1000 …

Measurement of antinuclear antibodies: assessment of different test systems

P Kern, M Kron, K Hiesche - Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
… about the cost efficiency of including these measurements in unselected sera. The ANA EIA
… The measurement of autoantibodies against antigens of the nucleus (antinuclear antibodies

Guidelines for clinical use of the antinuclear antibody test and tests for specific autoantibodies to nuclear antigens

A Kavanaugh, R Tomar, J Reveille… - … of pathology & …, 2000 - meridian.allenpress.com
… of clinical situations in which the ANA test has little value. … used to detect and measure
ANA and specific autoantibodies to … not been shown as yet to have proven clinical relevance. …

Antinuclear autoantibodies: clinical utility for diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring, and planning of treatment strategy in systemic immunoinflammatory diseases

AS Wiik - Scandinavian journal of rheumatology, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
… This review uses the term antinuclear antibodies in the … Some clinicians monitor the level
of anti‐dsDNA antibodies in … Analytical diversity in measuring anti‐dsDNA antibodies may …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical utility of antinuclear antibody tests in children

JL McGhee, LM Kickingbird, JN Jarvis - BMC pediatrics, 2004 - Springer
Antinuclear antibody (ANA… clinical utility of ANA tests in screening children for rheumatic
disease and to determine whether there are specific signs or symptoms that enhance the clinical

Antinuclear antibodies in patients with Raynaud's phenomenon: clinical significance of anticentromere antibodies.

CG Kallenberg, GW Pastoor, AA Wouda - Annals of the Rheumatic …, 1982 - ard.bmj.com
… In the present study the clinical significance of antinuclear antibodies in Raynaud's
phenomenon was further evaluated. Firstly, when ANA were detected in the serum of a patient, …

Range of antinuclear antibodies in “healthy” individuals

EM Tan, TEW Feltkamp, JS Smolen… - … : Official Journal of …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
… It is also recommended that each laboratory analyze a number of normal individuals and
compare their results with those in this study, so that corrective measures can be made if …

Measurement of antinuclear antibodies by multiplex immunoassay: a prospective, multicenter clinical evaluation.

KG Moder, MH Wener, MH Weisman… - The Journal of …, 2007 - jrheum.org
… 983 Moder, et al: Measurement of ANA It is unlikely that the multiplex analytical system
missed detecting clinically significant antibodies, in that the multiplex method had excellent …

Clinical significance of the antinuclear antibody test in selected children with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

SA Zimmerman, RE Ware - Journal of pediatric hematology …, 1997 - journals.lww.com
… We also analyzed the predictive value of additional autoantibodies, which were measured
in eight of nine children with progression of symptoms and 11 of 16 children without …