January 12, 2011 — Up to 13% of healthy people test positive for antinuclear antibodies (ANA), which are associated with autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren's syndrome, or ...
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 ...
The presence of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) indicates the possibility of autoimmunity and the indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) assay on HEp-2 cells is the standard blood test (ANA-HEp-2) used to ...
BRANCHBURG, N.J., May 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared ZEUS Scientific's dIFine® digital immunofluorescence system* for use with ZEUS' ANA HEp-2 ...
Although patients with SLE could have any of the various classic patterns described, certain patterns, especially using cultured human cells such as the Hep-2 line, are characteristic of certain ...