Guest guest Posted September 4, 2008 Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 Some thoughts: I have a friend with diffuse SD, her ANA early on was only 40...the lowest it can be...altho she had skin involvement...I, on the other hand...presented with just puffy fingers, joint pain, shortness of breath...and no skin involvement and my ANA lab result was 1280.... My particular subset of the SD is one that rarely has any skin involvement...having more internal symptoms....and the last page of the study done suggests that physicians, Internal Med and otherwise need to evaluate all patients with a positive ANA for this particular subset of SD...patients who have primarily internal organ involvement but little to none skin involvement..Dr. Whitman gave me the 6 pg copy of the study to give to all my local physicians...(who continue to tell me I don't have SD) because I have no skin involvement. Hope this helps some...Debbie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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