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 ...

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 ...

At the premier European forum on rheumatologic disorders, ImmunArray, maker of a breakthrough technology that provides unprecedented levels of accuracy in ruling out the presence of lupus through a ...

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, ...

Many lines of evidence suggest that IL10 is a strong candidate gene for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) susceptibility. In our previously reported study an allele (IL10.G-140bp) of the ...