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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cairns, A P
• McMillan, S A
• Crockard, A D
• Meenagh, G K
• Duffy, E M
• Armstrong, D J
• Bell, A L

Titel

Antinucleosome antibodies in the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus

Ist Teil von

• Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2003-03, Vol.62 (3), p.272-273

Ort / Verlag

London: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and European League Against Rheumatism

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Peripheral blood was sampled from 95 white patients with SLE (87 female, median age 47.0 years), 48 white patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (41 female, median age 55.5 years), 28 white patients with fibromyalgia (23 female, median age 47.0 years), and 95 white normal healthy volunteers (64 female, median age 31.0 years). More than one in five patients with SLE had antinucleosome antibodies but were negative for dsDNA antibodies. [...]the antinucleosome antibody test may be particularly useful in the diagnosis of SLE when anti-dsDNA antibodies are not present.