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SUBMITTER: Silvy F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4521886 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Silvy Florent F Bertin Daniel D Bardin Nathalie N Auger Isabelle I Guzian Marie-Caroline MC Mattei Jean-Pierre JP Guis Sandrine S Roudier Jean J Balandraud Nathalie N
PloS one 20150731 7
<h4>Background</h4>With the emergence of biotherapies, accurate diagnosis in early arthritis is needed. At this time, there is no biological marker of psoriatic arthritis.<h4>Objective</h4>To test whether antinuclear antibodies (ANA) can be used as a diagnostic tool in psoriatic arthritis (PsA), we evaluated the prevalence of ANA in biologic-naïve PsA patients and in healthy blood donors.<h4>Methods</h4>232 patients from the Rheumatology department, St Marguerite's Hospital, Marseilles, who fulf ...[more]