
#399 Wisely Ordering Autoantibodies - ACP IM2023
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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The Importance of Proteins in Rheumatology
14-3-3-8a is an inflammatory marker. It's not in the antibody. So that's kind of like an adjunct baby, if you want to think of it as in the same foot family as the ESR and CRP. And we do think that when your rheumatoid factor and or CCP and or both, positive, that adds another 15% that you're going to capture if that protein's positive too. We got to have a lot more studies for CARBylation. But my caution is with these A-A test might be less convincing than before.
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