Is your ANA test leaving you with more questions than answers? (Yikes! Is it lupus?!) Today's video dives deep into ANA patterns and their implications. In this video you'll gain a clearer understanding of how the results are reported and what they do, and don’t, mean. *2024 update

⏱Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
00:40 What is the ANA test?
03:00 What does the ANA pattern mean?
04:35 Homogenous pattern
05:19 Speckled pattern
05:56 Dense Fine Speckled pattern
07:02 Centromere pattern
07:34 Cytoplasmic pattern
09:27 Convo Starters (Qs for you and your doc)

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📖 References:
Damoiseaux, J. et al. Clinical relevance of HEp-2 indirect immunofluorescence patterns: the international Consensus on ANA patterns (ICAP) perspective. Ann Rheum Dis 2019; 78: 879-889.
Pisetsky, D. et al. New Insights into the role of antinuclear antibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus. Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2020 Oct; 16(10): 565-579.

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