Record 028 · Patient account · n.d.
A Personal View on My Lupus Diagnosis
Healthline · requested inclusion
“First-person Diagnosis Diaries account of a five-year diagnostic odyssey: routine blood work was normal until a nurse practitioner ordered an ANA panel that came back positive; she tested positive for 'ANA with reflex' but negative for the general ANA panel, received a UCTD diagnosis, and was finally diagnosed with SLE after anti-dsDNA turned positive.”
First-person Diagnosis Diaries account of a five-year diagnostic odyssey: routine blood work was normal until a nurse practitioner ordered an ANA panel that came back positive; she tested positive for 'ANA with reflex' but negative for the general ANA panel, received a UCTD diagnosis, and was finally diagnosed with SLE after anti-dsDNA turned positive. Candidate notes: Different ANA panel types gave conflicting results: positive 'ANA with reflex' but negative general ANA panel A single positive ANA was what got her referred to a rheumatologist after nine doctors had dismissed her symptoms Later anti-dsDNA positivity was the test that clinched the SLE diagnosis Limits noted in the record: Single-person anecdote; not generalizable Published as an essay; test details are patient-reported without medical verification A positive ANA is not a diagnosis. Claims in this record are not verified.
A positive ANA is not a diagnosis. Claims in this record are not verified.
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- follow-up-testing
- interpretation
- positive-ana
- testing-method
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