VIENNA — Anti-Ro/SSA antibodies may help predict which patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) are at a greater risk for interstitial lung disease (ILD) and may serve as a biomarker to guide ...

Anti-Ro antibodies are autoantibodies that react with two proteins, Ro52 and Ro60, inside cells. The antibodies are associated with many autoimmune diseases, including lupus, Sjögren's ...

Table 2 Pathogenic Autoantibodies in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. The presence of anti-Ro antibodies, anti-La antibodies, or both in pregnancy confers a 1 to 2% risk of fetal heart block.

Although much is known about the natural history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the development of SLE autoantibodies before the diagnosis of the disease has not been extensively explored.

In the trial, called Surveillance To Prevent AV Block Likely to Occur Quickly (STOP BLOQ), the incidence of AVB increased with higher levels of anti-Ro/SSA antibodies, reaching 7.7% for those in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — Pregnant patients with very low anti-Ro antibody titers of less than 1,000 units per mL have ...

Some individuals with anti-Ro/SSA antibodies (anti–Sjögren's-syndrome–related antigen A autoantibodies, also called anti-Ro antibodies) have autoimmune diseases such as lupus or Sjögren's ...

SAN DIEGO, California — Pregnant women with anti-SSA/Ro autoantibodies at titer levels of less than 1000 ELISA units per mL are at minimal to no risk for fetal atrioventricular (AV) block and ...

Maternal anti-Ro/SSA and anti-La/SSB antibodies are associated with congenital heart block (CHB), a rare condition marked by damage to fetal cardiac conduction tissues and subsequent inflammation ...

There were 44 pregnancies, including three sets of twins. The majority of fetuses (98%) were exposed to anti-Ro antibodies, 39% to anti-La antibodies, and a small number to both. The mean ...