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.

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 ...

"While anti-Ro antibodies have been known to be associated with AV block for decades, it has become increasingly clear that antibody titers matter," Buyon said in an interview. For the ...

Accumulated evidence suggests that anti-SSA/Ro and anti-SSB/La antibodies are necessary but insufficient for fetal disease. Basic and clinical research is heavily focused on identifying fetal and ...

Among the 413 pregnant women who volunteered for the study and whose blood tested positive for anti-SSA/Ro antibodies, 45 Doppler recordings out of the more than 30,000 sent were suspected of ...

Anti-Ro antibodies are present in 30–50% of lupus patients, and, when present in pregnant women (in association with anti-La responses), are associated with congenital heart block in offspring.

ATLANTA — Among mothers with anti-Ro antibodies who had previously delivered a baby with congenital heart block, hydroxychloroquine was associated with a 50% in risk of that complication in ...

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 ...