antibodies such as anti-SSA (Ro). Testing for MSA is not standardized, and commercially available tests use variable methodologies. Dr. Julie Paik is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the ...

Patients with CLE who have specific patient characteristics may have lower treatment response than patients who do not have these characteristics.

Healthy subjects were consistently found to be anti-ENA negative by any of the methods employed. [13] Antibodies directed against the SSA/Ro-60kD and SSB/La ribonucleoproteins, often coexisting ...

Recent decades have witnessed remarkable strides in the realm of clinical research and treatment for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and Sjögren’s ...

Recent decades have witnessed remarkable strides in the realm of clinical research and treatment for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and Sjögren’s ...

p<0.01), more frequently anti-SSA antibodies (90.5% vs 67.1%, p=0.03), but less frequent lymphocytic sialadenitis with a focus score ≥1 (66.7% vs 85.5%, p=0.03). If the analysis is restricted to ...

For this purpose, a doctor may order anti-dsDNA, anti-Sm, Sjögren's antigens (SSA, SSB), Scl-70 antibodies, anti-centromere, anti-histone, and anti-RNP. The ANA blood test can seem complicated. The ...

No diagnosis of IBM or other myositis was made. Twenty-nine (44.6%) patients showed other antibodies specificities: anti-SSA/Ro52 (20%), anti-Ku (4.6%), anti-Mi-beta2 (4.6%) and anti-DSF70 (4.6%). In ...

Friedman et al, USA,16 conducted a multicentre open-label prospective cohort study based on Simon’s two-stage optimal design with 20 pregnant women with anti-SSA/Ro antibodies and a previous child ...