What Does The Following Lab Test Result Indicate?

Posted on Mon, 21 Sep 2015

Question: Hi,
What does a lab result of ANA titer >1:160
indicate?

Answered by Dr. Rakesh Madhyastha (47 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Positive for ANA

Detailed Answer:
Hello

Thanks for the query

I understand your concern, positive ANA can be found in the following cases

1. Rheumatoid arthritis
2. Scleroderms
3. Systemic Lupus
4. Mixed connective tissue disorder
5. Polymyositis, etc

It will not be positive in Fibromyalgia.
The next step is to get an ANA profile to know what cateory of autoimmune disease you fall under, by the given history it will most likely to be RA

I hope I was of help, if you have any further queries please get back to me

Regards

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vinay Bhardwaj