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Investigation of the Serological Changes that Discriminate Asymptomatic Antinuclear Antibody Positive Individuals from Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease Patients
The Antinuclear antibody (ANA) associated Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases (SARDs) are chronic rheumatic disorders associated with high morbidity. Many patients with these diseases have irreversible tissue damage at disease presentation. Current therapies aim to control symptoms and prevent …
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Clinical Significance of Rheumatoid Factor in Rheumatoid Arthritis
… between RF positive and negative patients. Antinuclear antibody was detected more frequently in the RF positive (p=0.047). In RF positive RA patients, white blood cell and platelets counts were higher 8045.3±2543.3/㎕ vs 6835.6±l957.6/㎕, p=0.009 and 305±81.7×10^(3)/㎕ vs 264.4±83.2×10^(3)/㎕, …
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A Retrospective Review of Paediatric Non-Infectious Uveitisin Cape Town: Disease Characteristics and Outcomes on Immunomodulating Treatment
… at an overall younger age (p = 0.008), with antinuclear antibody positive (p < 0.001) oligo-articular JIA (p = 0.01) and older age appeared to be protective (p = 0.01 OR1.0 CI 0.6-1.7). Children with idiopathic uveitis (41.4%) were predominantly male (66.6%), of mixed race (75%), with chronic …