Following a limited three-month trial period in which more than one hundred and fifty patients with lupus-like symptoms were tested for the difficult-to-diagnose disease, a new blood test for lupus is ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by autoantibody production, with anti-dsDNA antibodies (anti-dsDNA) being a key indicator for SLE diagnosis and disease monitoring. A new study ...

This chapter briefly describes the major tests used to diagnose and evaluate SLE and provides information on their rationale and clinical usefulness. Nurses and other health professionals should ...

ATLANTA -- According to new research findings presented this week at the 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting, supportive laboratory assays to diagnose lupus, specifically the antinuclear antibody (ANA) test, ...