Abstracts tagged "ANA and systemic illness"

Abstract Number: 705 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Optimization of a Cost-Effective Diagnostic ANA Algorithm
Mathieu Cauchie¹, Bert Vander Cruyssen², Stefanie Van den Bremt³, Muriel Stubbe⁴, Xavier Bossuyt⁵ and Lieve Van Hoovels³, ¹OLV Hospital, Aalst, Belgium, ²Rheumatology, OLV hospital, Aalst, Belgium, ³Laboratory medicine, OLV Hospital, Aalst, Belgium, ⁴Rheumatology, OLV Hospital, Aalst, Belgium, ⁵Laboratory medicine, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Due to the poor specificity of the anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) assay, enhanced by the huge increase in ANA requests by non-rheumatologists,…