Introduction
Autoimmune diseases
Autoantibodies - Introduction
Autoantibodies - Determination
 
Autoantibodies
Rheumatoid Factor
Antinuclear Antibodies (ANA)
Specific Antibodies
Anti-neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies
(ANCA)
Anti-phospholipid Antibodies
Anti-mitochondrial Antibodies (AMA)
Anti-endothelial Cell Antibodies (AECA)
Anti CCP antibodies
Antibodies against DNases
 
Quality Assurance
 
Reference ranges
 
Algorithm
ANA and incidence of diseases
Proposed stepwise diagnosis scheme
Positive Immunoflourescence -
Nucleoplasmic
Positive Immunoflourescence - Nucleolar
Positive Immunoflourescence -
Cytoplasmic
Type of autoimmune diseases
Conditions associated with antinuclear
antibodies (ANA)
 
Slide show
 
References
 
Collaborators
Algorithm - Type of autoimmune diseases
 

Cell-specific

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia

Autoimmune thrombopenia

Goodpasture's syndrome

Myasthemia gravis

Organ-specific

Diabetes mellitus type I (pancreas)

Hashimoto thyreoiditis (thyroid gland)

Morbus Addison (adrenal gland)

Morbus Basedow (thyroid gland)

Pernicious anemia (stomach)

Paradoxical organ-specific

Autoimmune hepatatis

Primary bilary cirrhosis

Antiphospholipd-syndrome

Systemic

CREST-syndrome

Mixed connective tissue disease (Sharp Syndrome)

Polymyositis/dermatomyositis

Rheumatoid arthritis

Sjögren's syndrome

Systemic lupus erythematosus

Systemic scleroderma

Wegener's granulomatosis