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  • Abstract Number: 791 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016

    The International Consensus on Standardized Nomenclature of Antinuclear Antibody HEp-2 Cell Patterns (ICAP) Initiative – Update and Its Impact

    Edward K.L. Chan1, Jan Damoiseaux2, Gabriel Carballo3, Karsten Conrad4, Wilson de Melo Cruvinel5, Paulo Francescantonio5, Marvin J. Fritzler6, Ignacio Garcia-De La Torre7, Manfred Herold8, Tsuneyo Mimori9, Minoru Satoh10, Carlos Von Muhlen11, Luis E C Andrade12 and representing committee and translation team members, 1Dept of Oral Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2Central Diagnostic Laboratory, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands, 3Hospital Carlos G. Durand, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 5Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil, 6Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, 7Immunology & Rheumatology, Centro de Est. de Invest. Bas. y Clin., S.C., Guadalajara, JAL, Mexico, 8Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, 9Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, 10Department of Clinical Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan, 11Rheumatology, Rheuma Clinic Dr. von Muhlen, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 12Pediatric Rheumatology Unit, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Background/Purpose:  The indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) pattern observed in the antinuclear antibody (ANA) test provides an initial assessment of autoantibody responses in candidate patients who have…

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