Response to: "Antinuclear autoantibodies: discordance among four different assays" by Pacheco et al

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center and Medical Research Service, VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA david.pisetsky@duke.edu.
² Department of Medicine and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center and Medical Research Service, VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
³ RILITE Research Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
⁴ Division of Nephrology, The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Comment

David S Pisetsky et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 2020 Jan.

. 2020 Jan;79(1):e7.

doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-214766. Epub 2018 Dec 1.

¹ Department of Medicine and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center and Medical Research Service, VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA david.pisetsky@duke.edu.
² Department of Medicine and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center and Medical Research Service, VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
³ RILITE Research Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
⁴ Division of Nephrology, The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: autoimmune diseases; autoimmunity; systemic lupus erythematosus.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

Assay variation in the detection of antinuclear antibodies in the sera of patients with established SLE.
Pisetsky DS, Spencer DM, Lipsky PE, Rovin BH. Pisetsky DS, et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 2018 Jun;77(6):911-913. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-212599. Epub 2018 Feb 9. Ann Rheum Dis. 2018. PMID: 29440000
Antinuclear autoantibodies: discordance among four different assays.
Pacheco Y, Monsalve DM, Acosta-Ampudia Y, Rojas C, Anaya JM, Ramírez-Santana C. Pacheco Y, et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 2020 Jan;79(1):e6. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-214693. Epub 2018 Nov 20. Ann Rheum Dis. 2020. PMID: 30459278 No abstract available.