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#399 Wisely Ordering Autoantibodies - ACP IM2023

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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The Importance of a Positive ANA

The abnormal lab is really the thing that we're going to focus on, at least to start of this abnormal ANA. We won't include you, Matt, but Matt Watto. I think we've probably at least checked one ANA that's come back vaguely positive, and we're like, oh no, now what? And how would you explain it to the patient when she's coming to us? Like I've got seven normal labs. Does this mean I have lupus? Like where, what do we do with this? No, and that's really good. So for this case, as a rheumatologist,  I think you'd hopefully feel comfortable

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