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Persistent Positive ANA, Now DFS70 – Does This Indicate Recovery?

Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: 4 hours ago | Replies (6)
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@celia16

What does speckled mean?

Also, have you heard of an ANA result that says Abnormal. Not negative or positive?

I’m recalling sime things in my tests. I haven’t looked at them in a couple of months. Rheumatologist thinks I’m not suffering from autoimmune disorder. I mean, I have type 1 diabetes, psoriasis and hypothyroidism, but besides those things,

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seniormed | @seniormed | 4 hours ago

DM type one, hypothyroidism and psoriasis can all be
considered autoimmune diseases.
A speckled pattern refers to the appearance of fluorescent
antibody under microscopic view of specially prepared cells
in a lab test for systemic autoimmune diseases. The pattern can be seen in normal people that show no symptoms as well. Diffuse Fine Speckled (DFS) 70 is a large protein antibody molecule . 70 is the “weight”measure of the molecule in biology terms.
It is thought it may be a good sign that our AntiNuclear
Antibodies -ANAs are not the type causing disease if
DFS antibodies are measurable as well in our battery of
tests.

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