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Anti-Nuclear Antibody Screening Using HEp-2 Cells
Published on: June 23, 2014
Relation between Isolated Venous Thrombi in Soleal Muscle and Positive Anti-Nuclear Antibody
1Department of Vascular Surgery, Hitachi Memorial Hospital, Yasugi, Shimane, Japan.
Objective:
In patients with isolated soleal vein thrombosis (SVT), the relation between acute thrombi and positive anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) was investigated.
Subjects And Methods:
The subjects were 116 lower extremities in 86 patients with SVT. They were diagnosed and examined by ultrasonography and blood serum analysis (D-dimer, ANA), and had been followed up every three months.
Results:
They had acute SVT in 35 limbs (30%) and chronic SVT in 86 limbs (70%), and they had positive ANA in 63%. They had recurrent SVT in 26%, and all were positive for ANA.
Conclusion:
ANA-positivity might be a risk factor for acute thrombi in patients with SVT. (*English Translation of J Jpn Coll Angiol 2010; 50: 417-422.).
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