ACR Meeting Abstracts
ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 1634 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Julien Marlet1, Jean- Luc Charuel1, Isabelle Martin-Toutain2, Pascale Ghillani-Dalbin1, Zahir Amoura3, Annick Ankri4 and Makoto Miyara1,5, 1Department of Immunology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (AP-HP), Paris, France, 2Department of Hematology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (AP-HP), Paris, France, 3Internal medicine 2, French National Reference Center for Systemic Lupus and Antiphospholipid Syndrome, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (AP-HP), Paris, France, 4Groupe Hospitalier Pitié Salpétrière, service d'hématologie biologique, Paris, France, 5Internal medicine 2, French national reference center for lupus and antiphospholipid syndrome, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (AP-HP), Paris, France
Background/Purpose The search for antinuclear antibodies (ANA) by indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) on Hep-2 cells is routinely performed as the first step for the biological diagnosis…